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March 24, 2016
Anumita Roy
Food

Easter Bunny brings new Spring Treats

For Easter Sunday’s brunch, lunch or dinner, here are some quick recipes from Anumita. With a little imagination, ordinary ingredients help make extraordinary dishes. Here’s how you can do it. It’s...

March 23, 2016
Arindam Roy
Fairs & Festivals, Oral Traditions

Holi: Folklores, Festivity and Fertility

Holi, the spring festival, has several folklores associated with it. It’s celebrated for 40 days in Kullu, when devotees play Holi with Ram. The tradition continues for five centuries now....

March 21, 2016
Smita Agarwal
Poem

Mofussil Mummies

Smita shows us a slice of life in a laid back mofussil on the World Poetry Day. At seventy five and eighty, Under garden umbrellas They sit on the...

March 21, 2016
Ampat Varghese Koshy
Poem

Punch/ I Kissed a Girl, I Liked it!

On World Poetry Day, we present are two love poems of Ampat. The first is tongue-in-cheek, and the second, rich in symbolism. Punch Love is balding Growing a paunch Writes...

March 21, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Economy, Politics

Modi should first make India makeable, says SBP President

To ‘Make in India’, India must first be made makeable. Bad governance, chronic inefficiency and corruption, unjustified regulatory barriers, delays in land purchase, and substandard infrastructure are the malice that needs...

March 20, 2016
Sangita Bhat
Subaltern & Dalits

The Grim Sufferings of Musahars and Dalits

Sangita is in India under the youth exchange programme. She visited villages of Dalit and Musahar to report on the squalor, poverty and sufferings of the people living in the margins...

March 20, 2016
Beyniaz Edulji
Fairs & Festivals, Heritage

Jamshedi Navroze: Spring Equinox and Harvest Festival

Beyniaz tells us about Jamshedi Navroze, the Parsi New Year, tracing its antiquity. She discuses the tradition of the celebrations of the harvest festival in Parsi homes. Different Truths...

March 20, 2016
Sisir K Chatterjee
Architecture & Monuments, Cover Story, Heritage, Oral Traditions

…And God Played Hide and Seek in Guptipara

Sisir brings alive the magic and mystery of Guptipara. Here God played hide and seek with his devotee, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. He unfolds the story of a village situated in...

March 18, 2016
Nirmal Kumar Paudel
Gender

Oppressed Women in India and Nepal Must Stand Tall

Nirmal is in India for his youth exchange program between human rights organisation, Informal Sector service Centre (INSEC) Nepal and People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) India. He compares the...

March 18, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Politics

BJP MLA Arrested for Attacking Horse, Daughter Blames Media

The BJP MLA from Mussoorie, Ganesh Joshi, was arrested today. His daughter, Neha, blamed the media for falsely implicating her father. The father-dauther duo maintained that the horse was...

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