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February 16, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, Relationship & Lifestyle

Human Rights of the Elderly

As per the analysis of census 2011 data, the population of older persons in India has already crossed the unique mark of 100 million. The study records that with increasing...

February 7, 2017
Sunil Kumar Banerjee
History & Culture, Politics, Technology

Udta Punjab: Rising like a Phoenix from its Fractured Past!

Punjab had won it’s its statehood some years after India’s Independence but this had not entirely satisfied the Sikh majority. The Green Revolution of the sixties had given the Jat Sikhs and...

February 4, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Gender, Subaltern & Dalits

Dalit Writings are Revolt Literature: A Research Outline of Understanding the Making of the Activist Discourse

A good number of Dalits intuitively believe that they are born to do the perennial drudgery and thralldom to upper-class Hindus. Their belief has become almost and nearly instinctive...

January 28, 2017
Ashish Singh & Aleksei Opacic
Education & Career, Subaltern & Dalits

Complexities and Challenges of Inequality in Educating Children in India

The report and interventions say that access to education alone is insufficient. More efforts are needed to keep marginalised children in school and ensure learning by providing quality education. Even after the enactment...

January 6, 2017
Nikita Goel
Relationship & Lifestyle

Why do Married Women have to Look Married?

Once you tie the knot, your wardrobe has to announce your marital status. A woman has to be a sari-clad, wearing sindoor and mangalsutra, but men can roam around the...

December 25, 2016
Amit Singh
Cover Story, History & Culture

The Cultural Hegemony of Orientalism and India

India imagined as essentially irrational, others have described how darker aspects of Indian religious practice…reported cases of human sacrifices changed over time and came to be represented as primitive and barbaric,...

December 24, 2016
Shruti Nagvanshi
Advocacy, Subaltern & Dalits

Speech of Lenin at the Recent Rev. M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award-2016

Lenin Raghuvanshi’s passionate acceptance speech at the recent Rev. M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award-2016 ceremony, once again shows the deep commitment and dedication of his life’s avowed mission. A firebrand...

December 13, 2016
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy

Of the Human Rights Day, Dalia Lama and the Tibetan People

The Human Rights Day, celebrated world over, on December 10, is the day when the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded. This year marked the 27th year of the Nobel Peace Prize...

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 25, 2016
Arindam Roy
Awards & Honours

First Anniversary of Different Truths: Felicitations and Team DT

Different Truths completes one year at the strike of the midnight hour, in India. A year back, two Founders dared to dream. Soon it became a shared vision. Poets and...

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