Science & Technology - Different Truths

October 5, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Science & Technology

Police and Technologies are the Best Buddies

Bangalore-based Farheen tells us how technological advancements have helped the police detect crime and nab criminals effectively, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. For the law enforcement...

September 28, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Poem, Religion, Science & Technology

Annual Nirvana

Rita’s poem shakes us from the complacency and the taken for granted attitude. Here’s the sensibility of a compassionate social activist, in verse, as a special feature, in Different...

September 21, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Science & Technology

Technologies Help us See a Better Tomorrow

Bangalore-based Farheen tells us about brilliant innovations that has been made possible because of technologies making life easier. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Technologies...

September 14, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Science & Technology

Technology Translating into Virtuality and Reality

Technology is a life changing experience with the boundaries between the virtual and real diminishing fast, says Bangalore-based Farheen, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Disney Research’s...

September 10, 2017
Anumita Roy
Calamity, Environment

Mean and Monstrous Hurricane Irma set to Batter Florida Brutally

The eye of the Hurricane Irma is scaring people affected by it and many others all around the world. Irma is mean and monstrous. Anumita, our Managing Editor, reports,...

September 10, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Education & Career, Environment

Shantiniketan: Tagore set a School Amidst Nature, Unfettered the Young Minds – I

Rabindranath was unhappy with the British schooling system of sitting enclosed within four walls of high raised solid buildings. It was a feeling of suffocation he experienced, when the...

September 10, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Crime, Human Rights, Science & Technology

Gauri Lankesh Gunned Down, Brit Paedophile Assaults Blind Children, Personal Data as Currency and Golf through Fire

Shail re-creates four news of the week gone by in verse. A fearless journalist, Gauri Lankesh, was gunned down at point blank range at her Bangalore home, by unknown...

September 7, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Science & Technology

Technology: Pain, Sweat, Blood and Body Heat

Technology can now quantify pain experienced by a patient and help doctors’ prognosis. It won’t be easy to fake pain anymore. A device made from paper detects biomarkers and...

September 3, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Calamity, Crime, Environment, Poem

Hurricane Harvey, Mumbai Deluge, Unholy Baba and Blue Whale: Of Deaths, Shame, and Rape

From beating drums, fire signals and cries of the ancient man, we had travelling bards moving from villages to villages, recounting many stories (read news) in India and elsewhere....

August 29, 2017
Sukanya Juno Biswas
Calamity, Environment

Despite the Devastations Wrecked by Harvey, People Reached Out to Help

During difficult times Houston showed its true spirit, the kind of humanity we often think has disappeared. This is when I saw neighbours helping neighbours, strangers helping strangers. Black,...

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