Change - Different Truths

January 15, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Advocacy, Economy

Will the Union Budget Respond to the Demand of the Civil Society for a Universal Pension Scheme?

The letter written on behalf of the Pension Parishad, a network of 100 civil society organisations in it, is in response to recent reports indicating that the Centre was...

January 15, 2018
Mira Pawar
Education & Career, Potpourri

The Class of 92 of Hyderabad Public School Celebrated Silver Jubilee Reunion

Established in 1923 as Jagirdars College by the Seventh Nizam of Hyderabad, Sir Osman Ali Khan, the school was meant exclusively for the aristocrats and elites. Sometime in the...

January 11, 2018
Tarun Gupta
Business, Economy

How Reliable Are the Indian Banks?

Will the FRDI Bill become a law with enhanced investor protection, as per the assurance of the finance ministry? Tarun examines the debate on the said Bill, in the...

January 7, 2018
Dr. Preeti Talwar
Education & Career, Potpourri

Chasing Dreams I became a Butterfly!

It was three decades back choosing a career was a daunting task. Picking up the science stream was considered a privilege. It was like a herd mentality to pick...

January 6, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Economy, International Relations, Politics, Terrorism

Fissure in the US-Pak Relations and the Changing Dunes of Geopolitics in South Asia

Can we draw linkages between the announcement by Trump and the subsequent announcement by Pakistan’s central bank the State Bank of Pakistan that all arrangements for using Chinese yuan...

January 5, 2018
Shameena Abdurahiman
Beauty, Health

Face Exercises: The Secret to Remain Young for Many Years

Shameena tells us the secret to stay and look young for many more years, in the regular column, exclusively for Different Truths. Your face is the first thing that...

December 11, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Development vs. Dynasty was the Pitch of BJP in the First Phase of Gujarat Assembly Elections

PM Narendra Modi has led the BJP A-Listers in the party’s campaign, pitching the Gujarat election as a contest between development and dynasty. Rahul Gandhi attacks the BJP for...

December 11, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Gender, Parenting

The Womb Mates

When the kids become parents themselves then only they discover their parents’ awesomeness. The mother-daughter bond strengthens when the daughter becomes a radiant expectant mother. She trusts her mother implicitly...

December 2, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Multiculturalism

Salad Bowl and Americanism

American writers of the Indian sub-continent are women. They are Mary Anne Mohan Raj, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri and Bapsi Sidhwa, Pakistan’s important diasporic writer. In their writings, what...

November 30, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Fate of a Prostitute

An intense and powerful poem, with grotesque imagery, that depicts the life of a prostitute, by Kabir, in Different Truths, Every night haunts her Even when she smiles seductively ...

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