Nearly 90% (in my view) of child laborers are rural children. Most migrate to cities and end up begging, prostitution, domestic helpers, or other odd jobs. Child labour issue can not be dealt until and unless concerned organizations influence appropriate Governments to reevaluate the economic policies and rural economic growth. Till now rural economy is only known as agricultural economy and never emphasized on add-on value products. Governments have to consider growing and generating rural employment. read more

As children, all of us have inevitably played games which involved some form of role play, donning the part of varied characters – ranging from teachers to actors, and everything in between. This desire to transform into somebody else, to switch off reality – if only for a limited period of time, is what has made acting and actors such big business today.

But somewhere in the background, the scriptwriter is doing the groundwork for all this playacting. read more

I noticed the announcement of the Children;s Film Festival and decided to share this website I discovered a few days ago.

The website of the Children's Film Society of India is very informative. There is a section saying "online movies" which says "Coming soon" so it will be possible to be able to view some movies online, I think. In addition to lists of films in all categories in their library, they have information on how these movies can be screened for non-commercial purposes - in schools, for examples. read more

"THE GOLDEN ELEPHANT-15" will take place in Hyderabad, during November 14-20,2007

Hyderabad is an exotic combination of the past and present. Steeped in rich historical heritage has forts, museums and minarets rubbing shoulders with modern industrial and technological centres. read more