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December 8, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Dissent, Politics, Subaltern & Dalits

CPIML Protests Babri Demolition, Communal Attacks, Demonetisation, Attacks on Truth

There were a protest by CPIML New Democracy activists in Allahabad, on the occasion of Babri Masjid Demolition, on Tuesday (Dec 6), observed as Communal Harmony Day. They decried the demolition...

December 3, 2016
Different Truths
Book Club

Band, Baaja, Boys! A Hilarious Account of Small Town Life by Humourist Rachna Singh

A prominent humour writer, Rachna’s fifth book, ‘Band, Baaja, Boys!’ has received rave reviews in the national media. The back cover of the book says, “She would like to work towards world...

November 30, 2016
Subhajit Sanyal
Sports

What Plagues Football: Lack of New Talent, Dirty Politics or Loss of Audience?

Football is a game of the young. It needs strength, stamina, skill, nerve and a never-say- die attitude. Subhajit talks to a cross-section of teenagers and youngsters to understand what they...

November 24, 2016
Kavita Panyam
Relationship & Lifestyle

Why is Online Romance Trending on Cyber Space?

The anonymity of the cyber space make us throw caution to the wind. It often bares the passions that one keeps in check in real lives. There have been...

November 21, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Book Club

Author Rachna Singh says Writing Romantic Comedy Helped her Fight Cancer

Bangalore-based humour writer, Rachna Singh, had an interactive session with students of SHIATS, this afternoon (Nov 21). An Allahabad girl, she was an illustrious student, having topped in the city in...

November 8, 2016
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, Politics

Flames of Truth

People who have been wronged, rendered homeless and voiceless are left with little choice but to set themselves afire, alive. It’s most shocking, terribly grotesque. Till date there are 153 reported...

November 6, 2016
Anumita Roy
Short Story

…And One Day-I

The protagonist, Nandini, was orphaned at the age of five, when she lost both her parents in an accident in the Western Ghats, in India. She was being brought up...

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...

October 21, 2016
Nikita Goel
Relationship & Lifestyle

Everything Changes Once Your Girlfriend Becomes a Wife!

Marriage is not the end of the ‘conquest’. It’s not the end of the road. Nikita opines that many husbands fail to understand that the big houses, exotic vacations,...

June 30, 2016
Maya Khandelwal
Books

Nastanirh: A Lyrical Love Story of Tagore in Translation

Maya reviews a translation of Tagore’s love story, Nastanirh, into English by Lopa Banerjee. It is one of the most lyrical love story, which was made into a film, Charulata,...

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