Educated - Different Truths

June 14, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Gender

Tale of an Iftar with Women, with Sindoor, without Burqa

Twelve women, including Hana Mohsin Khan, a pilot, Nazia Erum, founder of The Luxury Label, Rana Safvi, historian and writer, and Rukhsaar Salem, founder of Mother Digest, decided to...

May 18, 2017
Bina Pillai
People, Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Velu had a Dream

Bina profiles Velu, who paid no heed to the ridicule about his buck teeth from other children. His hard work and sincerity helped him climb up the social ladder....

May 9, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender

Growing up in the Age of Eve Teasing

Bold and brutally honest, Payal knows her mind and calls spade a spade. She tells us about the sordid world of eve teasers. The flashers, the touchers, the perverts,...

May 1, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Balraj Sahni, Anushka Sharma and Satyajit Ray Celebrate Birthdays on May 1 and 2

While Satyajit Ray, the God of Cinema, was born on May 2, Balraj Sahni, who lived the characters he portrayed with realism, shares his birthday with bubbly, bouncy Anushka...

April 29, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

British Colonialism Contributed to the Growth of Indian Literature in English

How did the British rule in India contribute to the growth of Indian Literature in English? Basudeb probes into history and finds answers, in the weekly column, exclusively in...

April 5, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

Roman and Greek Imperial Expansions made Salads Popular Globally

Roman and Greek imperial expansions made salad popular all over Europe. Salads found their way to Australia and Asia from Europe and America. Salt is synonymous with salad because brine...

March 30, 2017
Debjani Guha
Gender

Opportunities and Challenges for Women Workforce

Debjani and Madhuparna take a hard look into the opportunities and challenges for women workforce in this research article of theirs, exclusively in Different Truths. In India, the emphasis...

March 26, 2017
Tapan Mozumdar
Short Story

What the Fish!

A fisherman, Gokul, catches a fish that can speak. The fish warps his reality. We are introducing a weekly new column, from this Sunday, Fantasy Fiction, by Bangalore-based Tapan,...

March 13, 2017
Dr. Tripti Sharan
Health

Cancer: A Viral Truth

Cancer cervix is leading cancer in Indian women and the second most common worldwide. A known cause, HPV ( Human Papilloma Virus), a known mode of spread i.e sexually transmitted...

March 2, 2017
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism

Akbar Allahabadi Infused Humour in Serious Subjects to Enrich Urdu Literature

The name of Syed Akbar Husain, popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi, seems to echo quite loudly from books written on Urdu literature, Allahabad and the plural culture of our nation. Given...

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