Shoma A. Chatterji writes about a film festival that lacks the glitz and glamour of stars, television cameras and paparazzi chasing famous people to freeze them for the media.

Lalit Vachani's latest film places the Mahatma's historic Dandi March in perspective, juxtaposing it against the reality of the depriveations faced by the poor. Shoma Chatterji reviews the film.

More than half a century after it was produced Shyamchi Aai remains alluring to children and adults alike, with its simple and straightforward message of unconditional love. Shoma Chatterji reviews the film.

Watching Paan Singh Tomar, which resurrects a forgotten sports hero and his compelling life, Namrata Ganneri can't help but notice what's missing.

Flickering Angels, a moving documentary on the lives of children of imprisoned parents in West Bengal, helps a child of an illegal immigrant caught in tragic circumstances to go back to her homeland. Shoma A Chatterji dwells on the reformative capacity of cinema.

The US PGA Tour's Memorial Tournament will use radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in spectator badges to ensure fans maintain social distance at the July 16-19 event, Golf Digest reported Saturday.

A pandemic-forced lockdown may not be the ideal way to get families together, but it's not something that's under human control. What's in your control is to stay safe at home, hug your mom and say 'Happy Mother's Day'.

Former India opener Gautam Gambhir doesn't see major changes in the way cricket is played in the post COVID-19 scenario besides the ban on using saliva on the ball. The International Cricket Council is considering legalisation of the usage of artificial substances to shine the ball instead of saliva.

Scientists are developing a predictive model to help Nasa anticipate conflicts and communication breakdowns among crew members and head off problems that could make or break the US space agency's future manned mission to Mars. Nasa has formalised plans to send a crewed spacecraft to Mars, a journey that could involve 250 million miles of travel.

Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday arrested a former trustee of Lilavati hospital in connection with a foreign exchange violation case.

Malegaon blast accused and BJP's Lok Sabha candidate Pragya Singh Thakur went on a temple run on Thursday, a day after the Election Commission imposed a 72-hour campaigning ban on her. The EC ban followed complaints against Thakur for her offensive remark against 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks martyr Hemant Karkare

Biting — yet sensitive. He’s a study in contrasts. Just like his books. Writer Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 with his novel “White Tiger”. In the first interview given globally over his new book “Last Man in Tower”, Adiga now tells Srijana Mitra Das about being a small-town boy, falling in love with Mumbai, capturing the people and philosophies rich India overlooks, writing being his fate, generating controversy — and why he might just step away now.

He's one of the subcontinent's most exciting literary talents. His new book 'Noon' explores violence in South Asia. Son of Pakistani politician Salman Taseer, assassinated after defying Islamist groups, Aatish Taseer speaks with Srijana Mitra Das about nations, truth, lies and ties that bind - or break - people.

No matter we live with her or not, our mother is that one person who always takes care of us.

When we are about to take one of the most important decisions of our life, how can we not take her advice, right? On this Mother's Day, we asked a few women about the best piece of marital advice they had received from their mother. Here's their story.

Many Covid-19 patients in the Pune Metropolitan Region died within a week of onset of illness, an analysis of the toll so far has revealed.

The civic administration on Saturday initiated steps to close all internal streets, bylanes and smaller approaches to main roads to restrict the movement of people within the containment areas, a day after district guardian minister Ajit Pawar underlined stricter execution of the lockdown measures till May 17.

Lopamudra, 35, was on cloud nine and counting the days to get the first glimpse of her child. It was a precious moment for her as she is having her first child after 12 years of marriage. But she had never expected that outbreak of coronavirus will cast a shadow over her joy and happiness of becoming a mother.

Fifty-eight more tested positive for Covid-19 and another person died in Odisha, the health department updated on its Covid-19 dashboard on Sunday. With this, the total number of positive cases in Odisha mounted to 352 while the number of deaths rose to 3.

"The older I grow, the more I miss you": Mother's Day wishes from grown-up children

The festival has its origins in the combination of two different medieval events. Commercial secular fairs were held at the beginning of the summer.

Covid-19 lockdown: Migrant workers, family walk back from Ahmedabad to their native place in UP's Lalitpur

Google celebrates Mother's Day with a Doodle

If you really think about it, it all boils down to money. Twenty- seven-year-old Sheena Jog, a product designer based in New Delhi, says at least two of the last three fights she had with her husband were over their "hard-earned" money.

Women in India are expected to look like Miss India and behave like Mother India. That is serious business for sure. But could it be that a 'lightness of being' is just not in their DNA?

Blame it on the British. When India names its children, the mother's side of the family is all but forgotten. The children are given the father's surname.

Poonam Malik is a typical 'Haryanvi bahu', head demurely covered with a dupatta, a shy introvert woman, busy with household chores in her joint family of 15. She covers her face with a 'ghunghat' if elders come visiting.

There are stories. And there are remarkable stories. And then there are people who write remarkable stories. Perhaps Pulitzer-prize winning writer Geeta Anand belongs to the third category.

Oncologists say the awareness of breast cancer is limited to cities. And when women are aware, the stigma attached to it prevents them from speaking out openly.

There is little to distinguish Kamalasagar, a sleepy hamlet in Tripura's Sipahijala district, from the hundreds of villages that line the state's border with Bangladesh. But it is no ordinary village.

In 1994-95, as part of a national campaign, I travelled through hundreds of Indian villages, mofussil towns and cities, explaining how miracle-mongers make sly use of chemicals and herbs and exploit the ignorance of common people about certain natural phenomena to fool the gullible and win their unquestioning devotion.

In every other store on the streets leading to the beach in Mamallapuram sit a row or two of Ganeshas, tiny turtles, elephants, reclining Buddhas and scattered stone figurines, all carved by the locals.

Progressive Maharashtra is dotted with temples and dargahs that keep women out

नई द‍िल्‍ली: कोराना वायरस संक्रमण के चलते लॉकडाउन की स्थिति है। ऐसे में सिर्फ जरूरत के सामना की बिक्री की ही छूट थी। अब सरकार ने लॉकडाउन में कुछ राहत दी है जिसके बाद भारत मे स्मार्टफोन की बिक्री भी शुरू

ಜಗತ್ತಿನ ಇತಿಹಾಸದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಅರಿಯದಷ್ಟು ಭೀಕರ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿ ಇಂದು ಕೊರೋನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಮೂಲಕ ಎದುರಾಗಿದೆ. ಇದು ಹರಡುವ ವೇಗ ಮತ್ತು ರೋಗಿಯನ್ನು ಸೋಂಕಿಗೊಳಗಾಗಿಸುವ ಕ್ಷಮತೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಇದುವರೆಗೂ ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಔಷಧಿ ಇಲ್ಲದಿರುವ ಕಾರಣ ಜಗತ್ತೇ ಇಂದು ಸ್ತಭ್ದಗೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಆರೋಗ್ಯವಂತರಿಗೇ ಇದರ ಸೋಂಕು ಎದುರಾಗುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿರುವಾಗ ಗರ್ಭವತಿಯರು ಮತ್ತು ಬಾಣಂತಿಯರು ಇನ್ನೂ ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ಸೋಂಕಿಗೆ ತುತ್ತಾಗುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚೇ

ಕೋವಿಡ್-19 ಎನ್ನುವ ಮಹಾಮಾರಿಯು ಯಾವ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರಿದೆ ಅಂದರೆ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಕೆಲಸ ಕಾರ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲೇ ಇರುವಂತೆ ಆಗಿದೆ. ಕೊರೋನಾ ವಾರಿಯರ್ಸ್ ಆಗಿರುವಂತಹ ವೈದ್ಯರು, ನರ್ಸ್ ಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಮಾತ್ರ ಹೊರಗಡೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯ ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಬೇಸಗೆ ರಜೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಜಾ ಮಾಡಬೇಕಾಗಿದ್ದ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಕೂಡ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲೇ ಕಾಲ ಕಳೆಯುವಂತಾಗಿದೆ.

ಕೋವಿಡ್-19 ಪಿಡುಗು ನಮ್ಮ ಜೀವನಶೈಲಿ, ಆರ್ಥಿಕತೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೇಗೆ ಹೊಡೆತ ನೀಡಿದೆ ಎಂಬುವುದು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಎಲ್ಲಿರಿಗೂ ಅರಿವಾಗಿದೆ. ಈ ಮಹಾಪಿಡುಗು ಕುಟುಂಬ ಯೋಜನೆ ಮೇಲೆ ತುಂಬಾ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರಲಿದೆ ಎಂದು ವರದಿಗಳು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಿವೆ. ಕೋವಿಡ್‌-19ನಿಂದಾಗಿ ಇಡೀ ವಿಶ್ವವೇ ಸ್ತಬ್ಧವಾಗಿದೆ. ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್‌, ಮತ್ತಿತರ ಗರ್ಭನಿರೋಧಕ ಸಾಧನ ಹಾಗೂ ಮಾತ್ರೆಗಳು ಕೊರತೆ ಉಂಟಾಗಿರುವುದರಿಂದ ಸುಮಾರು 9.5 ಮಿಲಿಯನ್ ಹೆಣ್ಣು

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