Education - Different Truths

April 5, 2019
Noveena Chakravorty
Education & Career, Mass Media

Effects of Social Sites on the Mass Communication Scholars – II

September 25, 2018
Swapna Behera
Short Story, Special Feature

A Gold Watch of the Bishop, a Stick of the Gardener and the Train

A Bishop had blamed the son of the gardener for stealing his gold wristwatch. The gardener too had beaten his son blue-black. Was the boy a thief? A story...

July 16, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Human Rights

Status of Childescents in India Worrying, says CRY Report

The report coming out on the World Population Day, last week, highlights that there are nearly a 100million childescents between 15 and 18 years in India, and this huge population...

July 16, 2018
IPA Service
History & Culture, Legal Issues

The Unseemly Noise over Taj Mahal: Judges Wade into Unchartered Territory

“Either we will shut down the Taj Mahal or you demolish or restore it”, a two-member bench comprising Justices M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta were reported to have...

July 14, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, LGBTQIA+

Opening the Door to Gay Room

Gay activist Harish Iyer, in a counter to BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who says homosexuality is “deviant”, insisted that homosexuality was a “variant” and that psychiatrists have said that....

July 3, 2018
Syed Kabir
Governance

The Unnamed Fame

Here’s an evocative short story by a young storyteller, Kabir. He penned this story, during a recent Creative Writing Workshop, conducted by our Editor-in-Chief, Arindam Roy, under the aggies...

July 2, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations, Politics, World

Mexico is Poised for a Regime Change on July 1

Trump denounced Mexican migrants to the U.S. as rapists and murderers and promised to build “a big beautiful wall” at the U.S.-Mexico border – and get Mexico to pay...

June 20, 2018
Atindra Nath Das
Advocacy, Opinion

You Need a Classroom to Break the Chain

It’s time we understand how education can do wonders in eliminating child labour, opines Atindra, for Different Truths. A little less than 1.5 crore children call Jharkhand their home....

June 18, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Cover Story

One More Child in School is One Less Child Labourer

Though shocking, almost 73% of the 33 million working children in India in the age group of 5-18 years do not go to school, as the Census 2011 data...

June 13, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

A Life-Enriching Training

Hemashri shares her experience of a training as a bureaucrat that enriched her. She shares her experience, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I was nominated for...

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