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July 28, 2017
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

How to Manage Work Pressure Efficiently?

Bangalore-based HR professional, Preeyan, tells us how to handle work pressure, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Success does not come easy. And every successful professional will...

July 24, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Tantra: Material World and its Experiences for Attaining Enlightenment

Satyananda Yoga believes that Tantra is a collective title, which covers a vast range of practical teachings leading to the expansion of human consciousness and the liberation of primal...

July 16, 2017
Nikita Goel
Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

The Pros and Cons of Raising a Child in India

Nikita talks about the pros and cons of raising a child in India vis-à-vis the US (and other western countries). Read more in the regular column, exclusively in Different...

July 14, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty, History & Culture

Sushruta, the Father of Plastic Surgery, was its Pioneer in Varanasi, India – I

Most historians agree that the first recorded account of reconstructive plastic surgery on the living is found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts. These texts describe procedures to repair noses...

July 4, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Wellness

Rain, Rain, go Away…

This ‘season of discontent’ seems to be perennial in some people’s lives. They are the kill-joys who squash our enthusiasm with their expectations of gloom and doom. Their blame...

July 2, 2017
K Pankajam
Books, Politics, Subaltern & Dalits

A Retrospective of Concern for Human Values: Letters to Namdeo Dhasal by Chandramohan S

Chandramohan’s poems portray subaltern life with exactitude and his concern for human values is quite evident in almost all poems in this collection. Poem after poem one can sense...

July 2, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Suicides

Here’s a poem on a pertinent socioeconomic issue, suicides by farmers. A protest poem by Kabir, in Different Truths. Peeling off the roots they cry Tears roll and feed...

June 27, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender, Parenting

A Happy Day for Fathers: Someday…

It is neither easy for men, nor women to transition their changing roles. Women are reluctant to give up the mystique of motherhood. And men have to prepare themselves...

June 21, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Advocacy, Cinema, Gender

Will the Strong Social Message from Phullu ever reach the Right Masses?

Our Delhi-based columnist Mahima tells us why Phullu, a film meant for the masses to educate them about menstrual hygiene at the right age, will not reach them. And...

June 15, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, Health

Recognising the Warning Signs of a Stroke FAST

There are four identifying factors in stroke as stated by the World Stroke Organisation, using the acronym FAST–Face, Arm, Speech and Time. Stroke or brain attack is now the...

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