Cover Story - Different Truths

June 19, 2016
Lily Swarn
Cover Story, Human Rights, People

The Partition

The partition of India is a deep gash in our collective consciousness. Millions of people from West Punjab and East Bengal were rendered homeless. There were hunger, rape, loss of human...

June 19, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Cover Story, Human Rights, People

Religious dissension partitioned of India in 1947. Two states, Bengal and Punjab, were spliced into two. An entire repertoire of Bengali literature, with its distinct echoes in cinema, documents the agony....

June 19, 2016
The Significant League
Advocacy, Cover Story, Poem

An Anthology of World Refugee Day Poems

The Significant League (TSL) and Different Truths (DT) together offer an Anthology on World Refugee Day (WED), the fifth tie-up between the two. Seventy two poems, one be each poet,...

June 14, 2016
Dr. Archana Kaushik
Advocacy, Cover Story

Elder Abuse: A Hidden, Harsh Reality

Elder abuse is recognised as a continually increasing and serious problem. Despite legislations, this evil is rampant in our society. There are an estimated 100 million older people in India...

June 14, 2016
Arindam Roy
Advocacy, Cover Story

Are Gods Deaf to the Wails of Widows?

Beginning with a personal journey into the world of Vriddhashram (old age homes), Arindam cites few case studies from the two temple towns of Vrindavan and Varanasi that houses 44,000 widows....

June 14, 2016
Saheli Mitra
Advocacy, Cover Story

Open Letter from an Ailing Mother to her Children in the US

Success has its price. An ailing old mother, staying by herself in a large house in Kolkata, writes a soulful letter to her successful and busy children, settled far way,...

June 12, 2016
Atindra Nath Das
Cover Story, Human Rights

One in Every Three Child Labourers in West Bengal is Illiterate

As World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) knocks at the door, on-ground data suggests that it’s time the West Bengal state should review its strategies in order to reverse the...

June 11, 2016
Dr. Mohanlal Panda
Conflict & Resolution, Cover Story, Subaltern & Dalits

PVCHR Empowered Child Right to Curb Child Labour

Africa and Asia together account for over 90 per cent of total child employment. India has 10.12 million child labourers (Census 2011), aged between 5 to 14 years, and...

June 11, 2016
Bhavna Bhasin
Cover Story, Dissent, Human Rights

A Child Labour Keeps Lopsided Economy Afloat on his Blood and Sweat

According to the ILO, internationally child labour has declined by one third since 2000. But, in India, that employs the largest numbers of child labour in the world, the trend is...

June 11, 2016
Lily Swarn
Cover Story, Human Rights, Short Story

Chhotu

Deprivation, born out of poverty and hunger, has snatched away the carefree childhood from millions of children in India and other Third World countries. Here’s Lily’s short story, based on real...

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