America - Different Truths

June 1, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, Health

High Blood Pressure in the Elderly: Causes and Prevention

Rita dwells on the issue of high blood pressure among the elders. She tells us about its causes and preventions, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Blood...

May 29, 2017
Chhavi Mehra
Criticism, Gender, Human Rights

Battle of Inclusiveness and Privacy

Seattle-based Chhavi analyses an Op-Ed piece, published in the New York Times, on October 15, 2016. She, thus, unveils the identity issue of a transgender girl, in the weekly...

May 20, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Raja Rao and his Novels Echo the Gandhian Freedom Movement

Basudeb critiques the novels of Raja Rao and analyses the impact of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy in his works, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Raja Rao was...

May 16, 2017
Payal Talreja
Calamity, Gender

Working your Panties off!

Women were at a huge disadvantage at home and workplace till the 1960s, both in India and the US. Things had improved for women on paper, in India. The...

May 14, 2017
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

Spirited

Here’s an interesting fantasy fiction about the world of the spirits, by Tapan, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I don’t know how much you are aware...

May 8, 2017
Chhavi Mehra
Multiculturalism, Subaltern & Dalits

How Media Constructs Identities and Influences us

Media uses language to construct public perception through style, structure, and images. It also presents an implicitly biased perspective to a wide audience on certain issues and sometimes,...

May 2, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

When Aloo was Lonely!

Humourist Soumya tells us about the journey of Aloo (potato) from South America, via Europe, to India. How was Aloo paired off in India? Read more in the weekly...

May 1, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Balraj Sahni, Anushka Sharma and Satyajit Ray Celebrate Birthdays on May 1 and 2

While Satyajit Ray, the God of Cinema, was born on May 2, Balraj Sahni, who lived the characters he portrayed with realism, shares his birthday with bubbly, bouncy Anushka...

May 1, 2017
Chhavi Mehra
Criticism, History & Culture

Language is Power

Just like privilege, language structures the interactions in such a way that it increases our chances of having things our own way and lays down ‘scripts’ consisting of cultural...

March 12, 2017
Arindam Roy
Cover Story, History & Culture, Politics

Holi: Unifying the Electoral Colours of Politics, Ribaldry and its Spread in the West

With the trends and results of Assembly polls in five states in India, it’s celebration time for the winning parties and candidates in the largest democracy of the world....

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