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October 16, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Health

Three Reasons for Mental and Physical Well-Being Equally Important

Ritambhara tells us the three reasons of mental and physical well-being, the interdependence, depression, and suicides, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Mental health is a level...

October 15, 2017
Suveera Sharma
Cover Story, Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

An Abundant Life with Little

We have been conditioned over time that ‘more’ is good. It’s a life of excesses. More of everything. More clothes, more jewellery, more houses, and even more things...

October 15, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Business, Calamity, Crime

Aarushi Denied Justice, Deadly Curse of Elphinstone, From Wagon R to Biopic, Bitcoin Billionaire and We Want Sauce

Shail reviews the fortnight that was in verse. Aarushi’s parents were acquitted of murder charges by the Allahabad High Court. In Mumbai, many died due to the collapse of...

October 14, 2017
Bindita Sinha
Gender

Landlords and the Unmarried Women in Kolkata

Bindita shares her woes of being discriminated against and being asked personal questions by landlords in the City of Joy, Kolkata. Read more exclusively in Different Truths. I hear...

October 9, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Health

Three Ways Cinnamon Facilitates Weight Loss

Ritambhara tells us about the health benefits of cinnamon, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Weight loss is supposedly the most talked about topic nowadays as obesity...

September 20, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

Shukto: An Essential Bengali Cuisine not Influenced by the Portuguese Cooking

The Portuguese arrived very late, in the 16th century in India, but the medicinal value of eating bitter at the start of the meal was laid down by the great...

September 19, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Law & Order, Opinion, Politics

Patriotism vs. Nationalism: Beware of the Jingoism of in the Name of a Nation

There is a worldwide resurgence of the nationalist pitch in politics. A globally surging separatist oratory is slowly and surely pushing back the strides made towards an international integration. To every...

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 15, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Cinema, Humor

Bollywood Films: Mélange of Coincidence and Fantasy

Ruchira journeys through the masala Bollywood movies and tells us, tongue-in-cheek, with oodles of humour, who gains from it. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths....

September 12, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Crime, Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

A Soliloquy of a Grandmother

Sunday (September 10) was Grandparents’ Day. Shernaz recounts the playfulness and bickering with her two adorable grandchildren. She worries about the world that they would inherit. From media reports...

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