Dead - Different Truths

May 15, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Deve Gowda Becomes the Good Father, but another Baby Goes Out With the Bath Water

Siddaramaiah has lost more than one arm. BS Yeddyurappa lost his cup of joy because there are these things called ‘slip’ and ‘lip’. Amit Shah lost his confidence. Rahul...

May 3, 2018
Rajinder Dutta
Defence

How We Returned from the Tunnel of Death!

The aircraft was fated for ditching, gliding straight along the channel south of the Cochin sailing club, the crew prepared for the SOP rehearsed live emergency and escape drills. As...

May 2, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Mass Media

On Jey Day, Jigna Walks Free: Mumbai Scribes Take Reporting to the Underworld

The day came for journalist Jey Dey to get justice. Mafia don and Dawood eyesore Chhota ‘Chindi’ Rajan got convicted along with nine others, while another journalist, alleged femme...

May 2, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Whose May Day is it: Kaamdar or Naamdar?

If you shout Mayday-Mayday! Don’t be shy. It is May 1, international workers day, which traces its origins to the Haymarket locality of the Chicago of the 19th Century, and...

May 1, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Travel & Food

Cooped up in Kodaikanal

Continuing with the backpacking trip in the South of India in the last column, Soumya tells us about a trip to Kodaikanal, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different...

April 22, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations, Politics, World

Pashtun Protest Escalates Braving Heavy Odds: People Overcome Fear to Fight for Their Rights

Ever since the 26-year old civil rights activist Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen emerged as the main voice of PTM from February, the focus is on protests to put an end...

April 19, 2018
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Sage Narada visits Kamsa – LXX

Nilanjana recounts the tale of Sage Narada visiting Kamsa, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Sukha smiled, “Now, Sage Narada decided to visit Kamsa again.” Parikshit was...

April 11, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Law & Order, Politics, Security

Milk Man Yogi Cannot Smell Coffee

There are cow-ambulances to take hurt cattle to hospital. But ‘man’? His daughter gets gang-raped by people linked to a Yogi MLA and allegedly by the MLA, too, and...

March 27, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mainstreaming Religious Politics can be Tricky

It is only now when the BJP has succeeded in exploiting the Congress’s mishandling of the secular concept that the latter is trying to erase the image of being...

March 21, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, Terrorism

39 Returning in Boxes Dash Hopes of Their Families: Confirmation Made Possible by ISIS Rout of Mosul

That truth is that ISIS was cleared from Mosul only towards the end of 2017, and only after then could a search be carried out by the Iraqi authorities....

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