dark - Different Truths

May 29, 2018
IPA Service
Book Review, Defence, Espionage, Terrorism, War & Conflicts

Pak Junta Grounds ISI Durrani to Grind Him: Book Reveals Games Played by Spooks across the Border

Lt. General Asad Durrani, once chief of Pakistan’s notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is in trouble. He danced a tango with ex-RAW head Amarjit Singh Dulat – who is in...

May 11, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Modi Makes Karnataka Poll Acid Test for 2019: Desperate Campaign to Make the State Congress-Mukt

If the Modi vituperative magic does not work as much as hoped for in Karnataka, it would mean that BJP, with its current majoritarian hold over the country and...

March 8, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema, Politics

Big Boss Kamal and Dark Horse Rajini

Who is the dark horse – Kamal the Big Boss or Rajini the Kaala? The only ‘similar’ about Rajini and Kamal is that both are actor-turned-politicians. Superstars! Both have...

February 26, 2018
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Myriad Tales

Here’s an intense poem about the inner turmoil, by Deeya, for Different Truths. Curses left me behind To float like blotches On skin Blindfolding me Legends floated on...

February 16, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

CPI(M) Under Severe Pressure Over Murder Of YC Worker: Congress Ups the Ante, Plans Statewide Agitation

The Congress is bent on extracting as much political mileage out of the Shuhaib murder as is possible. The party is planning to up the ante on the issue...

January 24, 2018
Bindita Sinha
Poem

Combustion

Here’s an intense, woman-centric, inward-looking poem, by Bindita, for Different Truths. I am standing on the sea coast Inside me, there is a silent shout I am smoldering…I am...

November 7, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Prem Kumar Dhumal and Rajendra Singh Rana: Friends turned Foes in a Faceoff in Himachal 2017 Assembly Election

Rana – who was once in the BJP and was considered close to Dhumal – parted ways with the saffron party and won the 2012 assembly polls from Sujanpur...

September 28, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Poem, Religion, Science & Technology

Annual Nirvana

Rita’s poem shakes us from the complacency and the taken for granted attitude. Here’s the sensibility of a compassionate social activist, in verse, as a special feature, in Different...

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 –...

July 29, 2017
Madhumita Ghosh
Fiction

The Music Room

Here’s an enigmatic and eerie ghost story, by Madhumita, exclusively for Different Truths. There were days and there were nights, one rolling into the other, fading, mingling and engulfing each...

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