British - Different Truths

July 5, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Food, History & Culture

The Enchanting Journey of Coffee from Ethiopia to the Rest of the World

Ruchira documents the journey of coffee, from the arid tracts of Ethiopia to Yemen and Turkey. It then reached Europe and the USA. Coffee is not just a drink....

June 28, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

In Defence of Social Media

Ruchira celebrates the influx of social media sites that have made like enchantingly interesting. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. To see a World in...

June 15, 2018
Dr. Kulmeet Singh Soin
Opinion, Politics

Unworthy Political Manoeuvrings at the Cost of the Nation – I

This undeniable fact of black money being the basis of our proud democracy is sad. For all of the elections and land acquisitions are done by utilising this undeniable...

June 6, 2018
IPA Service
Economy, Poverty, World

Thousands of British Citizens Trapped in High Debt: Social Care Cuts Hit Working Class Families

Despite an ageing population, the social care sector is rapidly decreasing, with figures released in 2017 suggesting that as many as 49 percent of frontline care jobs have vanished...

May 29, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Confessions of a Tech Challenged Blogger

It’s worth noting that an author is an incurable multitasking addict – he is writing the blog, reading Fay Weldon, watching Anger Management on TV channel, has FB open...

May 22, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Worry for NDA as Modi-Shah Duo no Longer Unassailable: Congress-JD(S) Victory in Karnataka Galvanises Opposition

The contest in Karnataka, the BJP apparently thought that a barnstorming campaign by Modi would be enough to enable the party to sail through. That it nevertheless had slight...

May 8, 2018
Aseem Asha Usman
History & Culture, Literature, Special Feature, Tribute

Revisiting the Bengali Renaissance through the Eyes of Tagore

Aseem critiques the Bengali Renaissance and the role that Tagore played in it, as Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. “I have become my own version of an optimist....

May 8, 2018
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Translation, Tribute

Red Oleanders: An Evaluation of Translational Strategies of Tagore

Tagore’s visit to Europe and America is one of the stimuli that leads him to write Rakta Karabi and then to translate that into Red Oleanders for pinpointing the crises of western civilisation...

May 5, 2018
Amit Singh
Cover Story, History & Culture, Human Rights

Diplomatic Struggle of India against Racial Apartheid[1] in South Africa and its Contemporary Hypocrisy on Human Rights

India since its Independence until the 1970s has played a central role in mobilising third world countries on the issue of Self-determination and racial equality. Amit, our Editor-at-Large (Europe)...

May 3, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Row Over Jinnah Portrait on AMU Wall

The young men of AMU are examples that Jinnah’s hare-brained scheme may not have been given a clean burial in India. Much is made of the Indian Muslim being...

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