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October 5, 2016
Lily Swarn
Travel & Food

A Slice of Army Life in the Serenity of Pune

In 1817, the third Anglo-Maratha war broke out between the British East India Company and the Marathas. The Peshwas were defeated in Khadkee, called Khirkee, by the British, and the city,...

August 25, 2016
Michelle Yost
Advocacy

Child Labourers: Educating and Emancipating Through Community Participation

The miserable plight of the child labourers in Gazipur, Bangladesh, called for immediate action. Michelle and her partner launched the programme, ‘We Learn’, to rescue and rehabilitate street children. She reveals...

August 15, 2016
Neelum S. Gour
Mass Comm.

Independence Day Reflections: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Neelum revisits the August 19, 2002, issue of the India Today. The special Fifty-Five Years of Freedom issue carries a lead article listing fifty-five things that made India...

April 15, 2016
Ampat Varghese Koshy
Books

Exhuming the Self

An eminent poet, Ampat Koshy reviews Rochelle Potkar’s collection of poems, Four Degrees of Separation, for Different Truths. Rochelle needs to be read for her images, her vocabulary, her language, her...

April 14, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Criticism

The Bard and the Baul

Madhumita translates a poem of Tagore, whom she calls, Baul. She quotes a few sonnets of Shakespeare, who is better known as the Bard. Separated by continents and centuries, the...

February 29, 2016
Sehar Siddiqi
Seminar

Shaping Minds for the new Millennium

Prof. MM Pant spoke about the 4th industrial revolution in a recent seminar in Allahabad University. In an era where knowledge and wealth are growing together the approach to learning must...

February 18, 2016
Farhaa Naz
Literary Festival

The Making of Awadh Literary Festival: An Insider Account

Different Truths presents an insider’s view into the making of Awadh Literary Festival. Here’s a candid account by Farha. She tells us a lot in her casual chatty style. ...

January 19, 2016
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Cover Story

Shruti Nagvanshi: An Ordinary Girl, Extraordinary Achievement

We, at Different Truths, congratulate Shruti, a Shining Jewel, for her strong determination, grit and spunk. We are proud of you. A member of our family, she and her husband,...

January 13, 2016
Sarika Sarkar Das
Food

Shepherds Pie: One pot Meal

Sarika shares her version of the wholesome Shepherd’s Pie. Traditionally cooked with minced mutton, she changed it to minced chicken. Here’s an Indian version of the English and Irish cuisine. Shepherd’s...

December 29, 2015
Dr. Mallika Tripathi
Books

Floral Symbols in the Poems of Ratan Bhattacharjee

Book Details 1. The Ballad of the Bleeding Bubbles, Cyberwit.net. Allahabad, 2013.(ISBN: 978-81-8253-446-9), Price $15 /Rs.200 (Pages 78) in print. 2.Oleander Blooms , Authorspress, New Delhi. 2015. (ISBN: 978-93-5207-045-9),...

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