Family - Different Truths

September 6, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

The Story of Ker Sangri: Rugged Plants Survive in Deserts; Rich in Nutrition, Medicinal Properties

The exact country of Ker’s origin is impossible to pinpoint. The fruit’s native habitat is wide. Many caper variants are native to the basin of the Mediterranean Sea, parts...

September 5, 2017
Ankita Sharma
Education & Career, Interview, Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Feature

A Child Needs Love, Faith and a Teacher has to become a Child

Meenu Kaushal is a young, cheerful nursery teacher of Apeejay School, Noida, often surrounded by her students. A postgraduate in Guidance and Counselling and a graduate in BA Psychology,...

September 4, 2017
Arindam Roy
Edit, Education & Career, Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Feature

Give your Son Good Food was the Advice of a Teacher to his old Student

Arindam, Editor-in-Chief of Different Truths (DT), pays his homage to an exemplary teacher that he met during a train journey, many moons ago. He thanks, Anumita Chatterjee Roy, Managing...

September 4, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Yoga Vashishtha: Renunciation Stands for Fearlessness

Our Yoga expert, Navodita. Tells us about Yoga Vashishtha, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Yoga Vashishtha is full of words of wisdom that succinctly explain the...

September 4, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Pain

The agony of an aged mother being sent to an old age home has been poignantly captured in verse, by Sarala, in Different Truths. Oh God how I cried...

September 3, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Cinema, History & Culture

A Leap Back in Evolution: A Film, Open Defecation, and the Advanced Sewage System of the Indus Valley Civilisation

The period dates back to almost five thousand years ago. The ancient Indus Valley Civilisation had systems of sewage and drainage that were developed and used in cities throughout...

September 3, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Calamity, Crime, Environment, Poem

Hurricane Harvey, Mumbai Deluge, Unholy Baba and Blue Whale: Of Deaths, Shame, and Rape

From beating drums, fire signals and cries of the ancient man, we had travelling bards moving from villages to villages, recounting many stories (read news) in India and elsewhere....

September 1, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Criticism, Potpourri

An Ode to Hinglish

Languages evolve and transform with time and usage (read misuse and abuse too). Ruchira tells us about the advent of Hinglish, a new kind of lingo, where English has...

August 31, 2017
Tarun Gupta
Business, Economy

How Susceptible are we to the Boom Bust Cycles?

A boom is a period of increasing demand, increasing productivity, increasing sales and increasing wages. A bust is a period when inflation decreases, unemployment rises, income falls, and demand...

August 30, 2017
Abhilasha Trivedi
Calamity, Photo Feature, Special Feature

The Mumbai Deluge Defeated by the Resilience and Bonding of the People

There is no city in the world like Mumbai when it comes to human bonding and resilience at the time of crisis. But, how much of resilience tests does...

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