Enigmatic Shekhar
In his over three-decade journey as a journalist, Arindam shows us the many faces of newsrooms in India, at the turn of the Millennium. He calls this series, ‘The Life...
Tombstone Attack can Prosecute Your Dead Parents
Tombstone scammers steal dead identities mostly for three reasons – to commit financial frauds, enjoy medical benefits or perform criminal acts behind a cloned individual. But the best part of...
Your Wi-Fi Hotspot Could be the Next Target of Café Latte Attacker
Café Latte attack had created havoc during the dawn of the millennium when wireless technology was just picking up the momentum. It was named so as the first invader...
Loss of Face of Zuckerberg is a Gain for the Politician: BJP, Cong Propaganda Machines Engaged in Confusing
Cambridge Analytica changed all that. Zuckerberg failed his ‘friends’. The middleman was back in currency, shaping crowd-perception and then passing the altered crowd-information to interested parties. The Homo Digitalis...
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....
Supreme Court Finally Upholds Right to Die with Dignity: Living Wills Recognised and Guidelines Framed
A path-breaking judgement of the Supreme Court recognises the right to die with dignity as a Fundamental Right and other major judgements from various courts of India. Here’s a...
Does Your Smartphone Have Salami Theft Alert?
Salami thefts are aimed mostly against two types of targets – individual or organisation and that defines the course of the attack. Cases where individuals are targeted, their money...
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...
An Emblem of the Meteoric Emergence of Arundhati Roy as a Novelist
Basudeb profiles Suzanna Arundhati Roy and critiques her novel, The God of Small Things, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born on 24 November,...
Ode to Social Media
A tongue-in-cheek verse on the social media, by Soumya, in Different Truths. Your every ping Makes my heart sing A chat a day Keeps blues away Through emoticon The...