Adolescent - Different Truths

March 21, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema

A Great Film on the Man Who Changed the World: Raoul Peck Gives a New Dimension to the Life of Young Marx

The director, Haiti’s former culture minister Raoul Peck, who made the Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro in 2016, wondered if he would find finance for his film. He...

March 16, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Gender

Week-Long Campaign to Curb Child Marriage

To build awareness against child marriage and address the issue in a holistic manner, Jawhar Jyoti Bal Vikas Kendra (JJBVK), a grassroots level organisation supported by CRY-Child Rights and You, announces...

July 15, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Gita Mehta: Exposing the Commodification of the Millennium-old Indian Values by the West

Gita Mehta’s fictional writings are a revolt against the Western way of looking at Indian life and culture. An important post-colonial Indian woman writer, she is dogma free to...

June 13, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

My First Dance

Humourist Soumya talks of his first dance, in his tongue-in-cheek manner, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I grew up in the East, where leaping about and...

April 6, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy

Nine in Every 10 Children do not get Adequate Diet in Jharkhand and Bihar: NFHS Data

Nine out of every ten children within the age group of 6 – 23 months in Bihar and Jharkhand do not get adequate diet, as the latest National Family...

March 14, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Relationship & Lifestyle

The Attitude of Gratitude is a Mindset!

The one thing we siblings heard way too often during our growing up years was – ‘Be Grateful’. As teenagers particularly, we had (or so we thought) lots to...

January 20, 2017
Nikita Goel
Relationship & Lifestyle

Your Siblings are the only People who Truly Qualify as Partners for Life

Siblings were our worst enemies when we were little but as we grow old, we realise that they are the only friends who have always stood beside us and will...

November 14, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy

Children Must Enjoy Their Childhood: Make Them Your Priority

CRY shares an appeal on behalf of children on Children’s Day. Let’s pause and ponder about the plight of thousands of children, whose lives are worse than animals. There are...

November 3, 2016
Subhajit Sanyal
Relationship & Lifestyle

Beauty is Skin Deep: Have Teenagers Forgotten the Quest for Inner Beauty?

What teenagers essentially forget is to groom themselves. No, they don’t forget to groom their appearance but what they forget is to groom their inner selves. Beauty is not...

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