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April 8, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Films, Legal Issues

Salman is no Helpless Chinkara he allegedly shot: Qaidi No 106 in the Waiting Room of Jodhpur Central Jail

Locked behind bars, he is getting special treatment. Bollywood stars are being allowed in Bhaijaan’s presence like he is Emperor Jahangir, who as you know upheld the law of...

April 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Irani Circular and a Government Running Scared but I&B Minister Persisting with Filmy Style

The Modi-led NDA government was in a hot-and-sour soup, spicy to the tongue of Modi detractors like Shourie, thanks to Information & Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani, who overnight sought...

March 31, 2018
Suveera Sharma
Book Club, Potpourri

Bring Me a Book

Suveera takes us on a pleasurable journey into the world of books and reading, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Have you ever felt so involved in...

March 30, 2018
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Poem

Passive Euthanasia

Here’s a poem on passive euthanasia, which has been allowed by the Supreme Court, by Dr. Amrinder, for Different Truths. In case, I become a terminal case Do not...

March 29, 2018
Payal Talreja
Gender

The Bitch, the Witch or That Woman on a Shaky Pedestal?

Millions of women are ostracised for what is normal, and in fact, a magical and powerful bodily function that enables the miracle of life. It is our fear of...

March 28, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy, Trade

GI Registry Needs to be Broad-based: Exclusion of MP from Basmati Cultivation Intriguing

The Chennai-based Geographical Indications (GI) Registry’s order in mid-March to exclude Madhya Pradesh from the area officially declared for the cultivation of the aromatic and widely consumed basmati rice,...

March 27, 2018
IPA Service
Cyber Crime, Politics

Loss of Face of Zuckerberg is a Gain for the Politician: BJP, Cong Propaganda Machines Engaged in Confusing

Cambridge Analytica changed all that. Zuckerberg failed his ‘friends’. The middleman was back in currency, shaping crowd-perception and then passing the altered crowd-information to interested parties. The Homo Digitalis...

March 15, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Who Wants Kichdi-Pulao: Politics Will Soon Return to Normal in Hindi Heartland

The SP-BSP informal alliance was a machine-killer, the EVM manipulators stood no chance against this safe combination. In Gorakhpur and in Phulpur, the Yadav and the non-Yadav OBC, the...

March 12, 2018
Meenakshi M Singh
Poem

A Home of my Own

An intense poem about the many trials and tribulations of an Indian woman, by Meenakshi, for Different Truths. I have been a cuckoo bird in past, Raising, egging...

March 4, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Gender, History & Culture, LGBTQIA+

A Historical Perspective of Transgender, a Different Community

In the earliest ages, these people were quite often thought to possess the wisdom that traditionally-gendered people did not, and were venerated for this. As civilisations transformed from matrilineal...

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