How did a young girl with no formal education become one of India’s most inspiring teachers and social reformers? Google doodle on the search engine’s homepage celebrates the birth anniversary of one of India’s most inspiring women — Savithribai Phule. Savitribai was born on January 3, 1831, in Maharashtra’s Naigaon district. All her life she and her husband, Jyotiba Phule, fought social evils and discrimination towards women and children, even […]

Mohammed Shami clearly does not care about Internet trolls or their moral policing. Just days after facing vitriolic abuse on social media for pictures he posted on social media with his wife Hasin Jahan and his daughter, Shami posted another picture with his wife on Sunday. Along with the picture, Shami wrote: I don’t have a friend. Neither is anyone mine nor do I belong to anyone. But seeing you […]

All our actions and everything we desire have to do with eventually being happy. Our goals and objectives in life are a way of seeking happiness and contentment in different forms. Most of us believe that happiness is attained when something significant happens in life or we associate it with various types of indulgence. Momentary and materialistic gains are usually considered the source of a satisfied life. The more we […]

Israel has warned that tourist targets are under ‘immediate risk’ in India The threat referred to the ‘south-west of the country’, which includes Goa India is a popular destination for young Israelis after finishing military service Israel criticised recently by John Kerry for building of settlements in West Bank Israel has issued severe travel warnings for India, citing an ‘immediate and severe’ risk to Western tourists. India has been the […]

The teaser of the upcoming Tamil film Taramani, which was released on Thursday, shows a man-woman relationship in an urban setting from a woman’s perspective. The nearly one-and-a-half minute trailer makes you uncomfortable from the start — simply in the manner in which the men speak about women and vis-a-versa. The trailer begins with an online chat session where we see a girl looking into a web cam (we presume […]

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New Year party planned? So the next best thing to think about is the culinary pleasures you must indulge in 2017. Restaurants, cafes, food pop-ups, culinary workshops, food trails. Clearly, food is on everyone’s mind in India, more than ever before, as innovative independents make their presence felt and the food scene gets diverse. That’s not all. Some food-related events are touted as must-attend and everyone’s gung-ho about checking these […]

With the 50-day deadline for the exchange of demonetised notes drawing near, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his “fight” against black money and corruption would continue unabated. “Through the note ban, in one stroke, we destroyed the world of terrorism, drug mafia, human trafficking and underworld,” he said, addressing a ‘Parivartan Maha Rally’ here. Indebted to people for support: Modi Acknowledging that people had undergone “immense” trouble due […]

As per Indian traditions, a teacher lives on a higher pedestal than a student’s parents. But what if a teacher falls in love with one of his students? Director Shlok Sharma’s feature, Haraamkhor, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Shweta Traipathi, treads on a thin rope where it’s hard to differentiate between lust, love and illicit relationship. Siddiqui, whose filmography looks set to include another pathbreaking performance in Haraamkhor, plays a teacher […]

There is a trace of pride in Nisha Chaurasiya’s voice as she complains of how she and her co-workers in an anganwadi in Rajnandgaon district of Madhya Pradesh struggled to provide food to babies and children, and to expectant women, since demonetisation took effect on November 8. “The self-help groups borrowed money from everybody, stood in bank queues, pleaded with officials and even spent from their own meagre savings to […]