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August 28, 2017
Anumita Roy
Photo Feature, Travel & Food

The World of Waters

Anumita captures the enigmatic mystery of water bodies that she had visited, in an enchanting photo essay, exclusively for Different Truths. Water, a compound with two parts Hydrogen and...

August 27, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Hypnotism

Here’s a political poem by Kabir that lays bare the schemes by those in power, in Different Truths. Larger, engulfing voids are being hidden With a bunch of small...

August 13, 2017
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Politics

Playing Ducks and Drakes with the Unique Ethos of Kerala

The distrust of the RSS-BJP whose professed ideology is at variance with and is abhorrent to the local populace, who are all equal participants in the political narrative of...

August 13, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Fiction, Governance, History & Culture

How did the Socioeconomic Undercurrents Survive Political Upheavals in India?

The wheel turns full circle when we find that many of the modern day concepts are rooted in our rich socioeconomic and sociopolitical heritage. Tapati finds hordes of interesting...

August 8, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Round is a Shape

Humourist Soumya talks about workouts, gym, swimming and his resolve to exercise seriously, in his typical style, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I love workouts. I...

August 3, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Human Rights

Joint Campaign by VRCO and CRY to Address Child Health and Malnutrition

Giving Children of Odisha a Healthy Start’, a six month-long initiative organised by VCRO and CRY, will reach out to children and mothers of 158 villages of five tribal...

August 1, 2017
Payal Talreja
Cinema, Gender

Sex and the Indian Woman: More than Lipstick under our Burqas

Gender roles are defined and given in a patriarchal society. The ‘good’ versus the ‘bad’ girl/woman mindset in the backdrop of the film Lipstick under my Burqa and marital...

July 30, 2017
Nikita Goel
Gender, Relationship & Lifestyle

What Would Happen if Suddenly, Magically, Men Menstruate and Women Could Not?

Male-female role reversals have intrigued most of us. In a 1978 satire for Ms. Magazine, feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem answered the question that so many women have asked: “What would happen,...

July 28, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty

The Cult of the Body Beautiful and Growth of Plastic Surgery to Enhance Sex Appeal – III

The post-war (World Wars) plastic surgery boom and the breaking down of traditional reluctance to undergo plastic surgery, particularly middle-aged, middle-class women, who were affluent and largely finished with raising...

July 20, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Naming the Children – XXXV

Nilanjana retells the story of the naming of two boys by Maharishi Garga, at Gokul, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Yashoda was busy feeding her baby...

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