Drowning under Waste
Hong Kong faces a huge waste disposal problem. Hidden under many of its beautiful parks, golf courses and sports grounds are millions of tons of garbage. Only three of...
Are we Empowering Women Ensuring Participation in Every Aspect of Life?
Dr. Brajesh discusses women’s empowerment, focusing on improving social, economic, political, and legal strength, ensuring equal rights, and fostering confidence, exclusively for Different Truths. Women – the life-givers, the...
How to Deal with Your Boss?
Preeyan’s article explores “boss issues” and provides strategies for cultivating a positive dynamic, exclusively for Different Truths. Any corporate structure, however flat, claims to have a hierarchy within the...
The Climate Crisis: Exclusive Insights on its Gravity
The Climate Crisis, exacerbated by human activities like industrialisation, deforestation, and fossil fuel burning necessitates urgent attention and action to combat extreme heat waves, opines Dr Baljeet, exclusively for...
Earth Day: Genesis & Celebrations
Mira tells us about the beginning of the Earth Day, tracing its genesis. Now, 192 countries celebrate the event. Rather than paying lip service to the degradation of the Earth,...
Durga Puja Nostalgia: Opening an Old Album and the Paroxysms of Emotions
Freshly returned from South America, first time Durga Puja to experience yet the vast unsettled feeling from being brought to a quite stringent and conservative environment in Batanagar from the...
Confessions of a Bird Lover
Dr Swaraj, an ardent nature lover, takes us on a journey of a bird lover’s wows and woes, exclusively for Different Truths. Confession # 1: The beginnings: When silence led to...
The Struggle for Justice
Concetta’s concern for justice draws our attention to various kinds of wars. She pens a Haibun, a Japanese form that combines prose and haiku, focussing on environmental issues. An exclusive...
African Women and Colonisation
Many of the approaches used to analyse African colonial politics, economies, societies, and cultures were often gender-blind and tended to ignore women’s lives, experiences, contributions, voices, perceptions, representations, and struggles....
Is Empowerment of Women a Distant Dream?
Women roughly constitute half the population but in every aspect women still remain grossly under-represented. Certainly, the women in the largest democracy of the world are ranked much below top hundred...