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February 19, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Murder of Youth Congress Worker: Arrests Put CPI(M) Under Greater Pressure

The murder of a Youth Congress Worker and arrests of CPI(M) cadre has pushed the latter against the wall. While Congress says that the real culprits are yet to...

February 17, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Conflict Resolution, Crime

The Gun Laws in the US: More Guns, More Homicides

A strong finding of a study by Philip J. Cook was on gun use and crime was that gun use intensifies violence, making it more likely that the victim...

October 24, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Out of the Mouths of Babes and Infants

Our humourist, Soumya, shares hilarious moments with his baby daughter, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. There was a popular American Television programme where a celebrity host...

August 5, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Feisty, Controversial and Soft Porn Writer Shobha De showcases Multi-dimensional Images of Indian Elitist Women in her Novels

Controversial and feisty novelist Shobha De. She wears many hats, a model, magazine editor, wife, mother, columnist, a celebrity in the world of journalism, a commentator on various social...

August 2, 2017
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy

Three Incidents, One Cause: Deaths to Liberate Tibet

Eswar tells us about the supreme sacrifice of Tibetan people to liberate their land. For the first time in the history of Mankind, a Nobel Prize winner died in...

June 25, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Karishma and Arjun Struggled to Carve a Place for themselves in Bollywood

Karishma Kapoor, a girl-child of the renowned Prithvi Kapoor family broke the family traditions, where women of the family do not act. She had drop school and become an...

December 10, 2016
Amit Singh
Advocacy, Cover Story, Human Rights

The Right to Life, Liberty and Security: Has India Failed to keep its Human Rights Obligations?

The growing number of extra judicial killings, rampant discrimination against vulnerable groups, tribal and Adivasi, including minorities and legal immunity (of perpetrators) Custodial torture, inherent in daily police practice, still remains...

November 8, 2016
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, Politics

Flames of Truth

People who have been wronged, rendered homeless and voiceless are left with little choice but to set themselves afire, alive. It’s most shocking, terribly grotesque. Till date there are 153 reported...

June 27, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Conflict & Resolution, Dissent

From Horror to Healing: National Convention in Solidarity with Torture Victims

The National Convention appealed to Parliament, state assemblies and the executive to take multiple, specific and practical steps to ensure both the abolition of torture and put in place, at...

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