December 22, 2024

Advocacy

September 25, 2024
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Gender, Parenting

The Love of a Mother: Overcoming Societal Barriers

Ruchira shares her 30-year breastfeeding experience, sparking criticism and reflecting on societal attitudes towards motherhood and the double standards women face, exclusively for Different Truths. Thirty years ago, one...

September 10, 2024
Hemashri Hazarika
Advocacy, Crime, Gender, Human Rights

Spotlight Women: Break the Shackles of Social Constraints

Hemashri highlights the ongoing struggles of Indian women, calling for societal change and a commitment to gender justice, exclusively for Different Truths. Our culture possesses these two great epics,...

June 13, 2024
Rachna Thakurdas
Gender, Humor

A Letter to My Daughter

Humourist Rachna’s take on board exams and the fear psychosis that parents and elders build around it. In a soulful letter to her daughter, she spells out her priorities as...

June 10, 2024
Payal Talreja
Gender

Boys will (Not) be Boys: Towards a more Human Society

We talk all the time about what we would teach our daughters, but we equally need to engage in reorienting that which is taught to our sons, not just...

May 30, 2024
Tooba Masood
Gender

The Right Shade of Feminism

Feminism has many layers of meaning. Tooba critiques it, saying that with concepts like feminism, it is sad that much of what it never stood for is now attributed...

April 30, 2024
Anika Ghei
Gender, Poem

Fast Forward

A bold, sensuous, agonising, and brutally candid verse. In Yeats’ words, ‘the ceremony of innocence is dead.’ Here’s the intense prose-poem by Anika, in Different Truths. Play: It’s my...

April 10, 2024
Geeta Varma
Animal Rights, Pet Care

Spoil Pooch with Love: Luxurious Pet Hotels on the Rise

The pet care industry is expanding, offering various services, but Concerns about unnecessary procedures and high costs are rising, says Geeta, exclusively for Different Truths. I do not know...

April 9, 2024
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy

Rights of the Elderly: Government Policies and Schemes for Older Persons

Rita takes a look into the rights of the elderly and educates us about various government policies and schemes for the elders, in the weekly, exclusively for Different Truths....

April 8, 2024
Harsh Vardhan 'Samrat'
Human Rights, Poem

Wish of a Child

A poem on child labour by Harsh, in Different Truths. This socially responsive poem effectively displays sordid plight of a child working in the mines. It represents the feelings...

April 5, 2024
Geeta Varma
Advocacy, Relationship & Lifestyle

The Urgent Need for Domestic Help Appreciation in India

Geeta criticises the disparity between cleanliness appreciation and sanitation worker respect, advocating for improved treatment of domestic helpers, exclusively for Different Truths. We speak about work culture and the...

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