What is it like to leave everything that you’re doing, quit living a mundane life and set out on an adventure? Yes, it all sounds exciting and romantic when you read such quotes on social media with hashtags like #wanderlust. The trailer of Daniel Radcliffe’s upcoming film, Jungle just disillusioned us and reflected the harsh truth about the life of a traveller. It all begins romantically with Daniel Radcliffe packing […]

This Father’s Day, Betsy Roddy will write two cards: one to her dad, and the other to her late great-grandmother, Sonora Smart Dodd. The second card is a century-old family tradition honouring the mother of Father’s Day. Sunday is the 107th Father’s Day celebrated in the US since Dodd created the holiday in 1910. As a result, she is the one responsible for those annual gifts that run the gamut […]

In a significant victory for India at the UN, international law expert Neeru Chadha has won a crucial election to a top UN judicial body that deals with disputes related to the law of the sea, becoming the first Indian woman to be appointed as a judge at the tribunal. Chadha, an eminent lawyer and the first Indian woman to become the chief legal adviser in the ministry of external […]

A road safety awareness music video by police in the southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras) asks parents to beat children if they flout traffic rules. Set to a racy beat and sung by popular Tamil singer Ghana Bala, the video combines footage of reckless youngsters on motorbikes with those of road accidents and funerals. Police said they wanted a video that would “appeal” to the youth. India has one […]

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to the US later this month, a new book promises to unravel the “method” behind the apparent “madness” of President Donald Trump. “Indian Foreign Trade: Trumped up or Down” by veteran bureaucrat Amiya Chandra hopes to demystify the man and his business minded approach to the job of governing arguably the most powerful country in the world. “To predict Donald Trump actions you need […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not have bad days because he is “not a woman”, and would rather not shower next to a gay man because he wouldn’t want to “provoke him”. The Russian President’s comments came in series of interviews with American film director Oliver Stone on topics ranging from geopolitics to gay rights and Edward Snowden. “The Putin Interviews”, a documentary comprised of conversations with the Russian president […]

The Islamic State group claimed its first attacks in Iran on Wednesday as gunmen and suicide bombers killed at least 12 people in twin assaults on parliament and the tomb of the country’s revolutionary founder in Tehran.       Dozens of people were also wounded in the attacks, with continuing gunfire several hours after they began. A security guard and one other person were killed when four gunmen burst into Tehran’s […]

Legendary American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan delivered his Nobel Lecture to the Swedish Academy in the form of an audio file on Monday. Dylan, who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, was required by laureates to give a lecture no later than June 10 to collect the some $900,000 in prize money. The speech, published as an audio file, with a text transcript, on the Academy’s website, starts “When I […]

Edgar Wright, the brilliant director who wowed us with the slick Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, is back with his new directorial venture Baby Driver. The film features the titular Baby (Ansel Elgort), a shades-wearing getaway driver for criminal kingpin Doc (Kevin Spacey) and his associates, including Buddy (Jon Hamm), Bats (Jamie Foxx), and Griff (Jon Bernthal). Afflicted with noise in his ears since a childhood car crash, Baby has a […]

Donald Trump’s decision for the US to join the elite club — hitherto comprising only Syria and Nicaragua — of countries rejecting the climate agreement has largely drawn negative reactions from all over the world. Not that it mattered to the US president, who delivered a chest-thumping address from the White House, and then took to social media for a bit more thumping of his chest: There’s nothing wrong per […]