With her upcoming film ‘Fireflies’ and recently released single ‘Rise up and run’, Monica Dogra has her hands full. Soumabrata Chatterjee and Pratiti Ganatra strike up a conversation with her…. So let us start the interview on a personal front…
The crows shouted for they knew not how to spend the leisure; the nightingales adorned their nests, the hay became stacks. The nightingales hatched, their breaths were visible. One flight — and the world knew the newborn. Suddenly all shouting
Why and how should men be engaged in the dialogue for stemming gender violence? Sayan Bhattacharya writes a report on one such dialogue. The HeforShe campaign which claims to be a “solidarity movement for gender equality that brings together one
The water imagery in Assam has often signified blood in the accounts of mainstream media. Rini Barman brings to you another side of the story … “Dikhowr bukute seuji majuli Rodot misikiyaai haahe- O’Senai o” At the heart of Dikhow,
September 27, 2014, Shillong: IMAGENATION took the musical spirit of Shillong to a whole new level today as they organised Shillong Blues & Jazz Festival at the U Soso Tham Auditorium in the city. Supported by the Department of Arts
Kashmir was caught in the deathly throes of a natural calamity, but the political battle between the Center and the state failed to devise an efficient strategy of countering it. The former’s reluctance to help and the latter’s unpreparedness, the
Water’s malleable metaphor takes the colour of varied emotional states. It can be ocean, river, storm, calm lake, source and dried pond of love; tsunami, flood and blizzard of cruelty, dew and liquid light of transcendence, damned estuary of eco
When it comes to bad films, there has to be a distinction between a ‘failure’ and a ‘fiasco’. Thomas Crowley trains his lens on the Salman Khan starrer ‘Kick’ and Luc Bresson’s ‘Lucy’ and shows us why they fall in
It might seem that the crux of the sanitation issue revolves around people without access to toilets, but it also has a lot to do with those who do have access to it. Koli Mitra looks into the impasse between
To bring about a change in the way rural India thinks and aid them in enabling better sanitation methods, the Gram Art Project conducted a ten-day event in Paradsinga village in Madhya Pradesh. Samudra Kajal Saikia has all details from