Reet Sahu is passionate about arts, photography and empowering the girl child through education. After winning the 1st runner up title at Mrs India International 2012, she tells Postnoon all about her dreams. Tell us about yourself and how did your interest in fashion begin? I was born in Udaipur and brought up in Delhi. [...]
Few people are as equipped to talk about the city’s art & culture scene than actor, dramatist, and managing director of Margadarsi, Shankar Melkote. On a cloudy afternoon, we are sitting in an unmarked cabin on the top floor of the Eenadu office “I am the first occupant of this cabin. I’ve been here for 32 years. [...]
Marcia Cross, the brand ambassador for PLAN’s ‘Because I am a Girl’ initiative, talks about the need to address gender inequality and safety of young girls. Postnoon gets talking to this actress with a golden heart
Hangouts are no longer only for the young. NM Rajeshwari’s initiative provides senior citizens a place to relax and make new friends.
It’s not just about working at home or office that marks the day of today’s woman. A day without a good workout is no day at all. And age? What age?
Srinivas Sunderrajan recounts the experience of making his first indie feature film, The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project. Needless to say, its making was as interesting and strange as the film itself Tell us about yourself. When did you decide to become a filmmaker? I majored in science and spent a year in IT. And then I [...]
Vasundhara, who started a school for underprivileged children in Jubilee Hills, has proved through her work that actions speak louder than words In a place like Jubilee Hills, which is studded with international schools with plush facilities, resides another school which is indeed special and different. Nachiketa Tapovana School is a school for underprivileged children [...]
According to reports, by 2050 India will have the largest elderly population in the world. Yet care for the aged seems the youngest of our causes How can cities, which primarily cater to a youth-driven population fail to spare a thought to the aged population? Their failure to accommodate their citizens 60 years and above [...]
Robert Schinkel, ace tea sommelier, looks a bit like Johnny Depp’s character Sam from the movie Benny and Joon. No, he does not dress in odd clothes, he does not perform Keatonesque tricks with hats, but his face exudes a quiet boyish innocence and sincerity. And the pout: you cannot miss the pout. He can [...]
Calm, confident, extremely accomplished, incredibly imaginative, IFS officer Sangeeta Bahadur is latest in the brigade of India’s best-selling authors Recently in the city at Landmark to promote her book Jaal (Book One of the Kaal trilogy), Joint Secretary at the Ministry of External Affairs, Sangeeta Bahadur talks to Postnoon about her career in IFS, writing [...]
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As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
Instigated or inspired suicide?
The reel-like sequences following the real-life suicide of actress Jiah Khan has invoked a debate on abetment of suicide. What is abetment? Is there a clear definition? Does a letter left behind by the victim like in the case of Geetika Sharma against former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda amount to abetment or will it [...]
Social networking is the order of the day. The world is a global village. As Marshall McLuhan believed the Internet has made us participants of this worldwide village. It’s surprising how forest communities and young Adivasis have started navigating in the social media to highlight problems such as displacement faced by tribal communities all over India. [...]
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