Dear Subscribers and Readers, The Chai Kadai team has been knee-deep in fulfilling our first dream – the launch of the monthly online magazine, Cutting Chai. This will be out on the 1st of July 2010. Much to our surprise, what we expected to be a small e-zine of ten pages has drastically grown in [...]

by Lillian Chan http://www.nfb.ca/film/jaime_lo_small_and_shy/ Watch more at NFB.ca Filed under: Cinema Tagged: Short Films

J.S Parthibhan is a bank manager with a difference: hes interested in people, not numbers. Through micro loans, he helps villagers in rural areas develop a sense of entrepreneurship and self-respect. Travelling on his moped to isolated villages, Parthibhan has made it his mission to bring his bank to the people, not the other way [...]

Dirt! The Movie “Floods, drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt.” DIRT! The Movie–directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow–takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous beginning to [...]

by Varun Warrier If someone told me to write to save my life, I wouldn’t be alive but I wouldn’t be dead either. I would be a specter stuck between the many different worlds without a magic ring to jump into the puddles. If someone told me to read to save my life, then I [...]