Giving out the Prizes
A new legislation made it mandatory to spend money on CSR. This excited the author and brought him back to his activist college days, before decades of selling to...
SC Dilutes Scheduled Castes & Tribes Act Drastically: Country-Wide Demand for Immediate Judicial Correction
A shocking judgement of the Supreme Court on the Scheduled Castes & Tribes Act and a weekly round-up of the major decisions of the courts in India as also...
Despite Economic Slowdown Popularity of Vladimir Putin is all-time High in Russia
With more than 56 million votes, it was Putin’s biggest ever win and the largest by any post-Soviet Russian leader. But the OSCE, a rights watchdog, said restrictions on...
Elixir, a Voyage of the Mind: Bestseller and a Critically Acclaimed Novel
Where does our mind go, when we fall asleep? Can dreams weave a layer of parallel existence? Can there be another reality beyond all that we touch, see or...
Data Mining for Poll Started in India: Facebook can Influence, but to Limited Extent
It is possible to use Facebook data to influence Indian elections because India doesn’t have a data protection law. Therefore, anything that Cambridge Analytica does in India will be...
Cambridge Analytica Boss met Trump before 2016 Poll: False Information through Facebook is Confirmed
Journalists posing as potential customers of the firm have released video of Alexander Nix, the now-suspended CEO of Cambridge Analytica, bragging how his company secured that data and used...
Objective-Type Doklam Question from Rahul a Joke: Misplaced Humour can kill Serious Intent
The Congress President, who everybody knows lacks a funny bone, has attempted to inject humour into an issue that is very serious and of considerable national strategic interest. Rahul...
The Lie That Cambridge Analytica can Sway FB Indians: 90 percent of Personal Data are Fake
FB boasts it can influence more than half the human population. Maybe. But not all the personal data of 2 billion human beings locked in FB is authentic data....
Delicious Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Anumita shares the recipe for a delicious and healthy dessert, Pineapple upside-down cake. It’s easy to make. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Cakes are...
Political Delicacies: Generational Change in Action
Political tidbits from around India, for Different Truths. The 84th plenary session of Congress saw for the first time in the party’s 133-year old history a change in the...