Anger in the City
Movies we do not like are banned, paintings that we do not fancy are not exhibited. Authors who do not mirror out thoughts are banished from countries. Newspapers shut...
Technology and Agriculture: Food for Thought
Farheen tells us how technology has helped agriculture, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. With so much of hustle-bustle around technology, thereby, most of us literary getting...
Uber Uber Ban Ban, AI set to Rule the World, Shah Rukh gets the Moon, Khichdi Promo, and Hookah Bar
A far-right activist was banned from ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft after launching into a vitriolic anti-Muslim tirade in the wake of the New York terrorist attack. Stephen Hawking...
Where did Baklava Originate: Greece or Turkey?
Baklava’s origin is always surrounded by the claims of both the Greeks and the Turks. The most ancient recipe from 2nd century BCE that resembles a similar dessert, is...
The Me Too Campaign: Women Stand Tall Against Sexual and Domestic Violence
The “Me Too” campaign has brought together women in a show of solidarity, of courage to make visible the enormity of sexual and domestic violence against them – their...
Sexual Harassment at Workplace: 20 Years after Vishaka Verdict
The Apex Court, for the first time, laid down a volume of guidelines and principles, apparently to be followed by all employment institutions state governed or private. In 2013,...
Red Alert: Future is Dead!
The recent shameful cases of an International school in Gurgaon where a seven-year-old boy was brutally murdered in the toilet of the school, a famous school in Delhi where...
Litti Chokha: Relished by a Peasant, the Rich and Famous and the Royalties
Litti Chokha is an inexpensive proletariat diet that even the rich enjoy. It played an important role in the First War of Independence in 1857. The freedom fighters virtually...
The Blue Whale Challenge and other Suicides: Parental Guidance Must Stop this Menace
Mahima discusses the dangerous Blue Whale Challenge, an Internet game, and other causes of depression that affects the tender minds of teenagers, leading to suicides. Anitha, a student activist,...
Elderly Urinary Incontinence: The Feeling of Being Tied to the Toilet
Rita talks about one of the embarrassing problems that elders or their families face, urinary incontinence or lack of control of the bladder. Read more in the regular column,...