Assam - Different Truths

November 5, 2016
Shirin Shabana Khan
Crime, Gender, Human Rights

Reality and Intervention of Witch Hunting: A Crime against Human Dignity

The easiest way to grab a woman’s property in rural hinterland is to brand her a witch. Unbelievable but horrifically true in 21st century India, women in the interiors of states are beaten, paraded naked, disgraced, ostracised and then robbed of...

August 4, 2016
Sarika Sarkar Das
Calamity

Grim Flood Situation in Assam, over 90,000 People Affected

The 70th Independence Day celebrations is round the corner. It is sad that though the nation has progressed on many fronts, development has not reached the far flung Northeast...

July 16, 2016
Lily Swarn
Potpourri

Hey, Chai Anyone?

There was a message outside the Tea Board office in Kolkata. It said, “All time is tea time.” That’s right in India. We hear the chai vendors at all hours...

June 6, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Dissent, Economy, Environment, Politics

Govt. Fudging Figures to Misdirect People on Environment Protection

The Indian government has contributed to this fudging of facts to fool the people by reducing definition of forest cover to only 10 per cent tree cover over each...

May 19, 2016
Arindam Roy
Politics

Two Women CMs, Mamata, Jayalalithaa Retain Power; BJP wins Assam Trouncing Congress

Mamata Banerjee and Jayalalithaa, the two women chief ministers, in the five states where Assembly elections were held, retained power. Mamata’s magic slogan Ma-Mati-Manush worked in the eastern state...

April 13, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Calamity

Massive Earthquake sends Tremors across India

At 7.25 pm, a massive earthquake, with its epicenter in Myanmar, send shock waves across India. While the tremors were strong in Guwahati and Kolkata, it was milder elsewhere. Here’s a...

April 12, 2016
A. G. Brace
Opinion

Indian Media Stormed by Three Questions

Three topics currently taking the media by storm these days are: the Supreme Court’s attempt to fabricate venues of escape for rapists. Secondly, the wastage of potable water on watering cricket pitches...

March 15, 2016
Sarika Sarkar Das
Potpourri

My Friend River Longai

A river is a friend. She nurtures and punishes. Here is a lesser known river, Longai, flowing in the northeastern part India and Bangladesh. Sarika talks of her deep connection...

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