Gilmore Girls is going to be on Netflix this festive season and with it comes back with the existential romantic angst and snappy camaraderie between the main characters that made the show so famous. The trailer finally has let us in on some of the key plot points of the upcoming four part reboot set in the sleepy town of Stars Hollow: Lorelai is living with Luke, but she thinks […]
Global wildlife populations have fallen by 58% since 1970, a report says. The Living Planet assessment, by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and WWF, suggests that if the trend continues that decline could reach two-thirds among vertebrates by 2020. The figures suggest that animals living in lakes, rivers and wetlands are suffering the biggest losses. Human activity, including habitat loss, wildlife trade, pollution and climate change, is attributed to […]
The 21st day of September has been marked since 1981 by the United Nations as the International Day of Peace. Before you groan, bear in mind that there’s all sorts of ‘International Days of…’, so why not one for peace? As the UN puts it, “The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.” The […]
Sounds outrageous, right?! Aileen’s journey is as outrageous as they come, folks; but that only makes it doubly inspiring at the same time. Aileen Adalid originally hails from the Philippines but she prefers it if you address her as a “citizen of the world.” It’s been over three years since she handed in her resignation at a cushy corporate job at Deutsche Bank and just started travelling. A Digital Nomad […]
A 22-year-old British student has invented a mobile fridge that could save millions of lives across the world. Will Broadway’s “Isobar” has been designed to keep vaccines at the ideal temperature while in transit in developing countries. And Will doesn’t plan to make money from his creation. His focus is to get it to people who need it, which is why he won’t be trying to get a patent. “I […]
We mostly can’t see it around us, and too few of us seem to care – but nonetheless, scientists are increasingly convinced that the world is barreling towards what has been called a “sixth mass extinction” event. Simply put, species are going extinct at a rate that far exceeds what you would expect to see naturally, as a result of a major perturbation to the system. In this case, the […]
Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States that left nearly 3,000 people dead. The Al-Qaeda plane hijackings of September 11, 2001 — the first foreign attack on the US mainland in nearly two centuries — ruptured a sense of safety and plunged the West into wars still being fought today. Two planes smashed into New York’s World Trade Center, leaving 2,753 dead. A third […]
It’s been four long years since Ben Affleck’s last film as director, the Oscar-winning Argo. And now, he’s back with Live by Night, a gangster drama set in 1920s Boston. Warner Bros released the first trailer for the film, which they’re really hoping is going to be a major Oscar contender this year. First, here’s the official synopsis: Live by Night is set in the roaring `20s when Prohibition hasn’t […]
Some Apple loyalists were going crazy at last night’s launch of iPhone 7 that boasts of a 3 GB Ram. You’ll forget all about the iPhone 7 after hearing about this new phone. A smartphone company called Turing has announced specifications for their new smartphone and it puts all the best phones of the world to shame. The Turing Monolith that’s going to be released in 2018 will boast of […]
In the month of August, absolutely nothing seemed to be going right for Burugula Satyam Rao, called “Sattaiah” by friends. The monsoon didn’t deliver and for the third year in a row, the maize and cotton he had planted on his small farm in Telangana were dead- the maize was stunted, the cotton saplings wilted away. Debt for the 42-year-old farmer had crossed five lakhs. But what broke Sattaiah’s heart […]
