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October 29, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Food

A Culinary Journey

A chutney prepared in a mixer-grinder would taste somewhat different from one made on a stone grinder. Heritage style of cooking from diverse regions, though elaborative and with a...

October 23, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Gender, Law & Order

From Practice to Perfect: Sex with Minor Wife Criminalised by the SC

In a landmark judgement, the Apex Court ruled out the exception u/s 375(2) of the IPC as being unconstitutional, stating that if any husband engages in sexual intercourse with...

October 16, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Gender, Law & Order

Sexual Harassment at Workplace: 20 Years after Vishaka Verdict

The Apex Court, for the first time, laid down a volume of guidelines and principles, apparently to be followed by all employment institutions state governed or private. In 2013,...

October 15, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Fiction

Friends Online

We introduce a new weekly column from this Sunday. Chennai-based Sumita tells us a story about online friendship, exclusively in Different Truths. September 11 Monday, 09:45 pm Aryan Chelvam...

October 9, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Legal Issues

No Amicable Settlement for Heinous Crimes: SC Brings Relief

On 4th of October, 2017, the Supreme Court, in a landmark judgement, brought in a sign of relief by ruling that criminal proceedings in grave offences like murder, rape,...

September 21, 2017
Tarun Gupta
Business, Economy

How Much Tax Should a Government Collect?

Higher tax should also translate into a higher development and social security. Are we also doing that, asks Tarun, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I must...

September 17, 2017
Arindam Roy
Crime, Edit, Education & Career, Human Rights, Law & Order, Legal Issues, Parenting, Special Feature

Shall our Children Inherit a Future Replete with Shame, Molestation, Rape, and Murder?

Editor-in-Chief, Arindam, anguishes about the unsafe and insecure future that our children would inherit if we do not wake up to the growing crimes against children. He introduces the...

September 17, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Education & Career, History & Culture

Our Shantiniketan: Where the World Meets in a Single Nest – II

Education was treated as a matter of individual concern and not a method of mass production, as of today. The ancient Indian education was not merely theoretical but was...

September 11, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Dissent, Human Rights, Law & Order

Killing those Voices

Why the people who raise their voices are being silenced, perpetually, asks Vedatrayee, a young Kolkata-based lawyer, and an eminent danseuse, reflecting on the death of Gauri Lankesh –...

September 11, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Phase Where Gauri Died

Here’s a tribute for Gauri Lankesh, in verse, by Kabir, in Different Truths. I am a pen Many use me for pleasure By writing on domestic islands Few use...

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