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March 26, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Ever Changing Political Psyche Puts Parties on Tenterhooks: Modi Losing the Rationale for a Repeat Performance

BJP lost not only in Uttar Pradesh but also in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and had come to the verge of losing the majority in the assembly elections in...

February 24, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

How Trinamool Splits Anti-BJP Consolidation: Increasing Evidence of Tacit Understanding with BJP

Are the TMC and the BJP in a clandestine tie-up of sorts? Opposition parties in Bengal are convinced that they are. Both the Congress and the CPI(M)-led Left Front...

February 23, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Travel & Food

Venice: The Wondrous Floating City

Ruchira takes us on a tour of Venice, a quaint city built on a cluster of 118 islands, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. This quaint city...

February 12, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

MPs Petition Gives New Twist to the Judge Loya Case

In the Supreme Court, Indira Jaising, appearing for Admiral Ramdas, argued that there were sufficient reasons to suspect the alleged death of Judge Loya, including several inconsistencies in documents....

October 28, 2017
Tooba Masood
Book Club, Criticism, History & Culture

Bhaswati Bhattacharya: Coffee House became the Nerve Centre of Adda, Politics, Literary and Cultural Discourse

Bhaswati’s intensive and meticulous six-year-long research on Indian Coffee Houses in Kolkata, Allahabad, and New Delhi, has fructified in the form of a book, Much Ado Over Coffee. Here’s...

July 25, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Puppy Love: The K9 Kind

Humourist Soumya talks about canine love, with paroxysms of emotions, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The first canine love in my life was my grandfather’s Daschund,...

May 22, 2017
Chhavi Mehra
Opinion, Relationship & Lifestyle

The Communication of Identity

We tend to unconsciously construct identities of ourselves but also form identities of other groups who we identify as different from through communication, based on stereotypes. These stereotypes or...

February 10, 2017
Nikita Goel
Relationship & Lifestyle

Arranged Marriage: Common Worldwide till the 18th Century; India and Italy were Exceptions

Ironically, Indians during the Vedic Period were one of the few exceptional people to engage in marriage, of free choice (Swayamvara) and live-in relationships (Gandharva Vivah) back in time when arranged...

January 22, 2017
Anumita Roy
Travel & Food

San Diego: The Plymouth of the West

San Diego is a major city some miles south of Los Angeles and reaches the Mexican border to the south. It is considered to be the second biggest city in...

January 17, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Annual Moksha on Sand Banks

Mamta beautifully depicts the supermarket of religion that springs up, in Allahabad, every year, where religion is commerce. Here Moksha (salvation) is an annual dose. The imagery and metaphors are picturesque...

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