Advocacy - Different Truths

December 10, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Crime, Gender, Politics, Religion

Dawood Depressed, Dawn of a New Son, Peak XV Everest, and From Akhila to Hadiya

The Mafia don Dawood’s only son has become a Maulana. Is he paying for his father’s sin, who is depressed with his son’s decision? The gharana politics is so...

December 7, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Activism, Advocacy

Child Health and Malnutrition: WCD Minister Endorses CRY-VCRO Campaign

‘Giving children of Odisha a healthy start’, a six-month-long initiative organised by VCRO and CRY, reached out to children and mothers of 131 villages of five tribal districts in...

December 6, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Advocacy, Interview, Special Needs

Meera Shenoy of Youth4jobs wins National Award for Placing Disabled Youth in Job

In India, people with disabilities are either looked-down upon, seen with sympathy or made fun of. Rarely people go beyond these actions. Mahima, in the weekly column, interviews Meera...

December 4, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Economy, Politics, Subaltern & Dalits

Is the Country Progressing if a Rickshaw Puller or a Daily Wage Labourer Sleeps Hungry?

Economists believe that although there is economic bullishness in government, there is economic gloom in reality in the country. Fiscal deficit as a percentage of GDP has declined from...

December 4, 2017
Mariyam Zafar
Films, Gender

Is it True that Women are for Women?

Making someone feel bad about themselves won’t make you feel any better. It’s about time we made “catfights”, jealousy and competition a thing of the past. Let’s not degenerate...

November 29, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Advocacy, Gender, Parenting

Meet Sonia Jolly, a Mother and a Good Samaritan to 45 Daughters

Sonia Jolly, a lady from an affluent family, runs ‘Upkaar Hum Hain’, an NGO, at Satna, Madhya Pradesh. She has been taking care and looking after 45 girl children,...

November 26, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Films, Human Rights, Politics

Padmavati Priorities, Let us Talk 3-D Sanskrit, Cancer Sins, and Going Back Home

What would be the fate of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film on Padmavati? Claims and counter-claims galore, a section of the Hindus are enraged about Padmavati meeting Khilji, which they...

November 1, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Gender

Am I too Modern to Handle?

Women from cities are often perceived or tagged as notorious for being too modern. However, they have their connotations of the term ‘modern’. Mahima explores the meanings of modernity,...

October 30, 2017
Zeba Abdin
History & Culture, Identity

Does the Changing the Name of a City Alter its Identity? What Happens to Development?

The government is now contemplating of renaming Allahabad as Prayag Raj. “What’s in a name?” Sounds simple. But it triggers several complicated questions, argues Zeba, exclusively in Different Truths....

October 24, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender

Sexism and Literature

Payal relooks at classics and popular comics to find how sexist in content these are, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Recently, I decided to recycle through...

subscribe