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Film on Dehradun's women helpline goes to Hot Docs Canada: Docu traces helpline's unusual marriage counselling service

India, April 26 -- Launched two decades ago, the Women Helpline in Dehradun is a well-staffed special office inside a police station in the hill state of Uttarakhand. Now, thanks to an intercontinenta... Read More


Afghanistan's Ambassador to Austria is confronting the Taliban and fighting oppression of women in her country

India, March 29 -- A day before Kabul fell to the Taliban, Manizha Bakhtari asked Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar: "What will we do if the government falls?" "The government won't... Read More


Record-breaking auction of MF Husain painting boosts confidence in Indian art

India, March 21 -- In the summer of 1954, the All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society in New Delhi was showing an exhibition of paintings by a few of the emerging Indian artists. The building of the Art... Read More


India's first literary tourism circuit coming up in Kerala soon

India, March 15 -- Kerala is building a new literary tourism circuit, literally. Museums and memorials for some of the most famous Malayalam writers, like Vaikom Muhammad Basheer and OV Vijayan are c... Read More


Interview l TM Krishna: Sree Narayana Guru's poetry is directly talking to the struggles of today

India, Feb. 22 -- When Carnatic musician TM Krishna sat in his studio in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, more than half a decade ago to set a particular text to music, it sparked a new turn for classical music a... Read More


Interview | German filmmaker Wim Wenders: 'Truth is an endangered species today'

India, Feb. 21 -- Director Wim Wenders sat alone at the head of a massive mahogany table a floor above the cinema in Delhi that was showing his new documentary, Anselm, on German artist Anselm Kiefer ... Read More