Governance - Different Truths

February 20, 2021
Prof Laksmisree Banerjee
Cover Story, Dissent, Economy, Opinion, Politics

Are we Perched on the Precipice?

Democracy and the nobler values of our Founding Fathers remain challenged as greed, violence and other evil intentions gnaw at the sociopolitical fabric of the society, globally. The uncommon...

February 9, 2021
Soumya Mukherjee
Cinema, Cinema, Crime, Films, Politics, Riots & Violence

Amu: A Film on the Sikh Genocide of 1984

Soumya reviews a film, Amu, on Sikh genocide and recalls his days as a volunteer. The reel and the real crisscross, grotesquely. The horrors come alive. An exclusive for...

February 9, 2021
Enakshi J
Agriculture, Dissent, Education, Politics

Political Bigotry, Deaf Ears and Falling Democracy

Farmers’ protests and Tripura teachers’ protests remain unresolved. Enakshi critiques political bigotry, deaf ears, and a failing democracy. An exclusive for Different Truths. “There may be times when we...

February 6, 2021
Rama Kashyap
Agriculture, Cover Story, Economy, Opinion, Politics

Farmers’ Protest: Resilience of Rural Punjab Mired in Controversy

An economist, Rama revisits the farmers’ protest that is mired in controversy after the Republic Day vandalism. An exclusive for Different Truths. Every night as I snuggle into my...

February 3, 2021
Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein
Governance, Pandemic, Potpourri

Understanding and Encountering the Conspiracy Theories

Tabassum Tahimina tells us about the conspiracy theories. An exclusive for Different Truths. Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain...

February 2, 2021
Enakshi J
Gender, Law & Order

Indian Women’s Safety in Dire Straits

Women and the civil society throughout India are protesting the recent controversial judgement by Justice Pushpa V Ganediwala, of the Bombay High Court, regarding a sexual assault case of...

January 22, 2021
Shantanu Mukharji
Defence, Guest Blog, International Relations, Profile

Flight to Pakistan

Shantanu, a retired IPS, reminisces about a flight to Pakistan, when he was a part of the SPG, to protect the then PM Rajiv Gandhi, in 1988. He profiles...

December 21, 2020
Shyamal Mukhopadhay
Agriculture, Cover Story, Opinion, Politics

Battlefield Farmland: People, Protests, and Governments

The present impasse between the farmers and the government has thickened. Shyamal airs his opinion, exclusively for Different Truths. During the last twenty days, the capital city of the...

December 15, 2020
Soumya Mukherjee
Riots & Violence

Riots

A new game called riot in a boy’s school to witness actual riots in 1984, along with the reference of the partition riots, Soumya records all these, in this...

December 2, 2020
Shormita Bose
Gender, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Subalterns

Will Transfeminism be a New Movement in India?

Transfeminism, a Spanish term, came into vogue in the late 1980s. During that period many feminist working group meetings called for the inclusion of trans women into feminist politics,...

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