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A child looks up at a TV screen with several apps to choose from at his home in New Delhi, India.

India’s ‘streaming dream’ may dim with new digital regulations

Arts, Culture & Media

With online news outlets and streaming platforms now under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, content creators may face new layers of bureaucracy, regulation and censorship. 

The World

This hit Indian movie offers a chance to see an empowered everyday woman on the big screen

Arts, Culture & Media
Bollywood playback singer Manna Dey at an award ceremony in 2007.

Bollywood singer Manna Dey dies at 94, but his songs keep living

Arts, Culture & Media

Brazilians increasingly moving back and forth from U.S. in search of opportunity

Business, Economics and Jobs

New movie looks at the struggles of foreign-born, adopted children

Arts, Culture & Media

Korean serial entrepreneur turns to China for next big opportunity

Environment

A Korean man who went to grad school at Stanford has started and sold several companies in the United States and Japan. But in his search for the next big opportunity, he’s transplanted himself to China, where he’s expecting a boom in innovation.

‘Girl Rising’ Film Shows How Educating Girls Can Break the Cycle of Poverty

Arts, Culture & Media

If you can provide a girl in a developing country with just a few years of education, you can break the cycle of poverty in a way that reverberates throughout a community.

Remembering Indian Comedian Jaspal Bhatti

Arts, Culture & Media

Bhatti’s popular TV series “Flop Show” is best remembered for addressing the problems of the middle class in a satiric, quirky way.

Indian actor Aamir Khan at a press conference.

Can an Actor Change a Nation?

The latest issue of Time magazine’s Asia edition features Indian actor Aamir Khan on its cover. While Khan, 47, is a megastar and one of the most popular actors in India today, the title suggests that it is his bucking of Bollywood stereotypes and pursuit of action on social issues that has put him on […]

Will Dharun Ravi’s Sentence Fit the Crime?

The case of Tyler Clementi became national news when the Rutgers University freshman jumped off the George Washington Bridge in September, 2010. Clementi had recently told his family he was gay. Last March, a New Jersey jury convicted Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy, after Ravi spied on Tyler kissing […]