Advocacy - Different Truths

December 31, 2017
Payal Talreja
Cover Story, Dissent, Films, Gender, Mass Media, Sports

Celebrating Women: The Year That Was!

Firebrand feminist, Payal, our columnist, says that from within the murk and gloom of crime against women, there were many who rose from the ashes like the mythical Phoenix....

December 29, 2017
Arindam Roy
Book Review, Business, Creative Writing, Curtain Raiser, Economy, Edit, Education & Career, Films, Food, Gender, Human Rights, People, Place, Poem, Politics, Politics, Relationship & Lifestyle, Sports, Travel & Food

Looking Back, Looking Forward: In the Twilight of a Year-end and a New Year

Our Editor-in-Chief, Arindam, and the entire Different Truths Team celebrate the twilight of a year-end and a New Year. Here’s a three-day long Special Feature, exclusively in Different Truths....

December 27, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Crime

Crime against Children sees 11% Increase in a Year: Kidnap and Rape at the Top

Crime against children in India has increased by a sharp 11% between 2015 and 2016, as freshly released NCRB data suggests. Looking at the concentration of reported incidents across...

December 22, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Gender, Relationship & Lifestyle

Am I Modern or Liberated?

In introspection, Ruchira asks some hard questions, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I never blindly followed social norms and customs. Period. For this, I have to...

December 20, 2017
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Advocacy, Health

Doctors: The Hands That Heal are not the Ones That Kill!

A news is different from perceptions/rumour that is served as news by vested interest groups. Dr. Amrinder clears the fog about the five-month fetuses that were given by a...

December 19, 2017
Bushra Alvi Razzack
Gender, Human Rights, Law & Order

Voice against Violence: A Silent Protest Sensitises on Crime against Women

Crime against women has increased rapidly in India over the past ten years. A total number of 3,27,394 cases of crime against women were reported in the country during...

December 12, 2017
Mona Vijaykar
Gender, Opinion

Empowered Women Stand Tall

It takes conscience, compassion, clarity, and courage to empower a victim of abuse. This whole business of empowerment is a sham, opines Mona, showing us the light at the...

December 11, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Gender, Parenting

When the kids become parents themselves then only they discover their parents’ awesomeness. The mother-daughter bond strengthens when the daughter becomes a radiant expectant mother. She trusts her mother implicitly...

December 10, 2017
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Human Rights, International Relations, Politics, Security, Terrorism, War & Conflicts

Crisis of Western Human Rights: No Answer for the Suffering Millions Globally

Amit, our Editor-at-Large (Europe) critiques human rights, which is essentially a Western concept. His erudite research shows how the West has been conveniently shifting the goal posts, often using...

December 10, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Crime, Gender, Human Rights, Special Feature

Rape of Innocence: Is Humanity Dying?

Human Rights Day (10th December) is observed globally. Pledges are taken to grant all human beings their basic inalienable rights. Yet millions of tortured and damned girl children continue to live in darkness,...

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