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December 18, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Home & Garden

Three Reasons Why Hydroponics Should be Promoted in the Era of Vertical Expansion

Hydroponics is the art of gardening without soil. Below are three reasons why hydroponics should be promoted when we are in an age of vertical growth with hardly any...

November 21, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

Of Unwanted Guests and the Guest who Came for Dinner and Never Left!

Here’s a humourous account, by Soumya, of gatecrashing parties as unwanted guests and how the misdeed caught up with the protagonist, many moons later, much to his embarrassment. Read...

November 17, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Will the 2017 Local Body polls in UP Gauge Public Opinion Ahead of the 2019 Parliamentary Elections?

While the local body election will be the first major challenge for the Yogi government in Uttar Pradesh, for SP and the BSP this will be a way to...

October 8, 2017
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Human Rights, International Relations, Politics

A Critical Analysis of Human Rights with Focus on Foundational Weakness and Dual Nature of Human Rights

Our Editor-at-Large (Europe), Amit, raises questions that are of immediate relevance to international politics, as human rights are increasingly ‘mainstreamed’ into the policy framework of states. He critically reflects on...

October 7, 2017
Abha Iyengar
Criticism, Interview, Poem

Poetry and a Call for Change

Here’s an interview by Abha Iyengar, exclusively for Different Truths, with Aabha Vatsa, who brings the winds of poetic change to Faridabad. Vatsa feels that we are living in times...

September 17, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Education & Career, Human Rights, Law & Order, Legal Issues, Opinion, Parenting, Special Feature

Red Alert: Future is Dead!

The recent shameful cases of an International school in Gurgaon where a seven-year-old boy was brutally murdered in the toilet of the school, a famous school in Delhi where...

August 24, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy

Eye Care Tips for the Elderly

Rita tells us about the necessity of eye care for the elders, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Problems with eyesight can occur at any age, but...

August 12, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Book Club, Creative Writing, Fiction, Humor

How Writing Became a Dream Come True!

Writing about writing is rather intriguing. Soumya, a humourist and an author, recounts how he became a writer and penned, rather keyed his first novella, befittingly titled, ‘Memories –...

July 31, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Bihar School of Yoga: Preparing for Tough World, Keeping Positive Attitude and a Selfless Service

The Bihar School of Yoga propagates certain forms of Yoga like Living Yoga propounded by Swami Niranjananda Saraswati. It spells out a certain vision of Sannyasa. Navodita, our Yoga...

June 24, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Nayantara Sahgal: A Novelist of the Indian Corridors of Political Power

Basudeb profiles Nayantara Sahgal, the second daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (sister of Jawaharlal Nehru). An important woman novelist of the 20th century, she penned many political novels too,...

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