Games - Different Truths

October 15, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Fiction

Friends Online

We introduce a new weekly column from this Sunday. Chennai-based Sumita tells us a story about online friendship, exclusively in Different Truths. September 11 Monday, 09:45 pm Aryan Chelvam...

September 24, 2017
Tapati Sinha
History & Culture, Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

Do Games Kill: Lonely Children, Companionship, and Secure Future

Despite technological advances, we have little time for our children. The Blue Whale Challenge is a grim reminder. Tapati reminds us of the Indus Valley Civilisation, where archaeologists had...

September 17, 2017
Ratan Mani Lal
Cover Story, Crime, Education & Career, Human Rights, Law & Order, Legal Issues, Opinion, Parenting, Special Feature

Difficult Time for Those Having a School-going Child

Several studies and reports have indicated that children are prone to exploitation even within homes, and most of the cases of molestation are perpetrated by someone the victims have...

September 12, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Crime, Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

Sunday (September 10) was Grandparents’ Day. Shernaz recounts the playfulness and bickering with her two adorable grandchildren. She worries about the world that they would inherit. From media reports...

September 10, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Education & Career, Environment

Shantiniketan: Tagore set a School Amidst Nature, Unfettered the Young Minds – I

Rabindranath was unhappy with the British schooling system of sitting enclosed within four walls of high raised solid buildings. It was a feeling of suffocation he experienced, when the...

August 24, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: The Twin Trees – XXXIX

Nilanjana retells a story of infant Krishna’s pranks and the divine grace in it, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Stories of Krishna’s childhood pranks not only...

July 29, 2017
Madhumita Ghosh
Fiction

The Music Room

Here’s an enigmatic and eerie ghost story, by Madhumita, exclusively for Different Truths. There were days and there were nights, one rolling into the other, fading, mingling and engulfing each...

July 21, 2016
Bhawini Tripathi
Science & Technology

Pokémon GO: Smart-phones Serving Joy

We are in the era of the virtual reality game Pokémon GO launched in July 2016. Facebook has a huge 7-digit number of people talking about this. TechCrunch reported on...

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