A feature-length documentary produced by a Mumbai-based company has been selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the ongoing Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. “Fire in the Blood” is also nominated for the coveted Grand Jury Prize.
Sushma looks as if she's in her late forties but she's not sure about her real age. Her name isn't real either, just the one she goes by in New Delhi's red light district. She is among the many women, men and children living and working in brothel number 300 on Garstin Bastion Road, known as "G.B. Road," in the city's old quarters who are documented by Mayank Austen Soofi in his new book, "Nobody Can Love You More".
Bhatinda, India — The train crawls into the grimy station, and scores of anxious cancer patients scramble to find assigned berths, floor space, even corners. Wrapped in large woolen blankets against the wintry cold, the passengers prepare for an overnight journey to the nearest public hospital, 220 miles away. Many call it India’s “cancer train.” A woman is traveling with her family of six to be tested for cancer.
Sushma looks like she's in her late forties she's not sure about her age. It's not her real name but the one she goes by in New Delhi's red light district. Every morning at 2:30 a.m., she wakes up, drinks a cup of tea and paints her face with make-up before stepping out into the street to look for men who'll pay her around two dollars to have sex.
– Candolim, Goa Actress Isha Sharvani, who had to walk out of season five of “Jhalak Dikhla Ja” after a nasty elbow injury, was all agile on the opening day of season two of India Resort Fashion Week (IRFW), where she danced in designer clothes. The second edition of the fashion extravaganza started Nov.
About 20 men dressed as Pakistani soldiers boarded a bus bound for a Muslim festival outside this mountain town and checked the identification cards of the passengers. They singled out 19 Shi'ites, drew weapons and slaughtered them, most with a bullet to the head. The shooters weren't soldiers. They were a hit squad linked to the Sunni Muslim extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, or LeJ.
A 20-minute drive from the Indian village of Satnapur, past bone-dry fields and groups of malnourished children, there’s a government storage facility overflowing with wheat and rice. The complex is five football fields long and holds 57,000 tons of food meant for some of the nation’s 350 million families living below the poverty line of 50¢ a day. None of it is reaching the 106 households in Satnapur eligible for the rations.
