Reviews - Different Truths

February 6, 2018
IPA Service
Corruption, Economy, Exploitation, Mass Media

Looking at Elders through Selective Eyes: Retirees from News Organisations in Dire Straits

Retired people from newspaper companies and organisations were never granted proper salaries in their prime time of life. Having craftily ensured low salaries to these essential staff, the management...

February 1, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema

Why did Bhansali Reduce Rani Padmini to a Vagina, not allow Women to Live after Rape? And Alauddin his Fun!

The feminist in actor’s guise, who watched period drama Padmaavat, walked out a zombie, the feminist in her raped and ravaged. How dare, Mr. Bhansali, Sir, reduce her to...

January 31, 2018
Mahima Sharma
Book Review, Criticism

Mothering A Muslim by Nazia Erum Bares the Ugly Fangs of Social Reality in Contemporary India

Mahima discusses Nazia Erum’s best seller ‘Mothering A Muslim’ with the author’s take as well as reader’s reviews from across the world, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different...

January 29, 2018
IPA Service
Mass Media, Publishing

Delhi Metro: An Eye-opening Picture of Sick Journalism

Suspicious to a fault, journalists have a questioning mind. Some even questionable minds. Hacks at heart, they hack into lives without a ‘May I?’ These days of Social Media...

January 24, 2018
Mariyam Zafar
Cinema

Revisiting Rafoo Chakkar: Villainy, Crossdressing, and Chuckles Enliven the Comedy

At a time when men – Dev (Rishi Kapoor) and Salim (Paintal) – dressing up as women wasn’t a comedy norm, the mere transformation of both the actors is hilarious. Not...

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 30, 2017
Sutapa Basu
Book Review, Creative Writing, Potpourri

Kaleidoscope 2017

An eminent writer, Sutapa, whose talked-about book is soaring the bestsellers charts tells us about her journey in the year that was. She also shares her review about some of the...

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 22, 2017
Kabir Deb
Mass Media, Opinion

Why Such a Hullabaloo Regarding Condom Advertisements on TV?

Why are we prudes even after 70 years of Independence? Condom ads are to be shown from 10 PM to 5 AM, as instructed by the Union Ministry of Information and...

December 2, 2017
Neerja Pandey
Book Review, Fiction

A Psychoanalytical Journey is a Voyage into the Minds and Psychological Concepts

Martin, the author, gets an opportunity to lead an education tour of Turkey through travel grant approved by the university. There are five couples in the group, four married...

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