Fear - Different Truths

February 24, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, Science & Technology

It May be Time to go for Non-Human Judges: AI Could Have Faults, but so do Our Human Judges

New contours of judicial processes are emerging, which might help in instituting a more acceptable and transparent system. Artificial intelligence is one such area. Technology and law are converging...

February 16, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

New President Ramaphosa has to Unite all Factions

Ramaphosa’s narrow victory over Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for the ANC presidency, his supporters’ failure to win a clean sweep of the top six positions and the clear national executive committee...

February 16, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Yogi on Collision Course with Upper House: Demand for CBI Probe into Fake Encounters

Legislative Council chairman Ramesh Yadav directed the Yogi government to recommend a CBI probe into three alleged fake counters in Noida and Greater Noida. A report for Different Truths. ...

February 6, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Chandrababu Naidu is Still Assessing his Ties with BJP: Declining Strength of TDP has limited his Options

While ties between the two parties, TDP and BJP, have steadily deteriorated over the years, Naidu’s frustration is that he has not been able to get money from the...

February 2, 2018
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

What is Out of the Box Thinking?

Ideas are building blocks for change and when you are able to implement these ideas and measure the change you are close to becoming capable of “out of the...

January 22, 2018
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Animal World

Three Easy Behavioural Interpretations of Body Language of Dogs

Ritambhara tells us three signs that would tell us more about dogs, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. In a world where the difference in the language,...

November 30, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Fate of a Prostitute

An intense and powerful poem, with grotesque imagery, that depicts the life of a prostitute, by Kabir, in Different Truths, Every night haunts her Even when she smiles seductively ...

November 28, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Adventure, Travelogue

Close Encounters of the Final Kind

Soumya tells us how he, with his two daughters, survived parasailing in the rough sea in Goa. Did the close brush with death break them or make them stronger?...

November 16, 2017
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

Compensations

An evocative poem about various aspects and attributes of life, by Elsy, in Different Truths. Two-in-one, bane and boon: this hyper sensitivity! The bane is when even a...

October 31, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Was it a Brush with Ghosts?

What do we fear more, ghosts or the scare of ghosts? In black humour, Soumya tells us that he almost had three brushes with ghosts, in his weekly column,...

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