Gender - Different Truths

October 11, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Gender

Education is the Key to Reduce Child Marriage: CRY

CRY welcomes Bihar government’s move to combat child marriage and advocates that it can only be achieved by ensuring that girls get to complete higher secondary education before they...

September 25, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Gender, History & Culture, Politics

Can we Achieve Perfect Harmony through Gender Justice?

Kolkata-based young lawyer, Vedatrayee, dwells on the subject of gender justice. She examines it socio-politically, in the historical perspective, to challenge established biases, in the weekly column. A Different...

September 1, 2017
Sunita Shukla
Crime, Economy, Opinion, Politics, Religion

The Vulnerability of Religiosity: How Fake Godmen Rule the Roost!

Nagpur-based Sunita exposes the chinks – rather cracks – in the armours of the socio-political and socio-economic structures. These bizarre figureheads continue to draw vulnerable people in the name...

August 22, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

A Suitable Boy

Our humourist, Soumya, travels down the memory lane and talks about the apprehensions of parents about the choice of a life partner for their child(ren), in the weekly column....

August 18, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Poem

Somewhere in the Midst, I Lost my Voice…

A gender sensitive poem, by Ritambhara, that depicts the over-protectiveness for girls that stifle her, and how she overcame it, in Different Truths. Since my childhood, To blossom like...

August 13, 2017
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Politics

Playing Ducks and Drakes with the Unique Ethos of Kerala

The distrust of the RSS-BJP whose professed ideology is at variance with and is abhorrent to the local populace, who are all equal participants in the political narrative of...

August 12, 2017
Alisha Fathima
Poem

Home, Safe Home

Here’s a gender sensitive poem, by Alisha, about how a little girl should behave, in Different Truths. Little girl, don’t go outside Or the big bad wolf will...

August 1, 2017
Payal Talreja
Cinema, Gender

Sex and the Indian Woman: More than Lipstick under our Burqas

Gender roles are defined and given in a patriarchal society. The ‘good’ versus the ‘bad’ girl/woman mindset in the backdrop of the film Lipstick under my Burqa and marital...

July 21, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty, History & Culture

The Emergence of Plastic Surgery from the Renaissance to the Present Day – II

In the second part, Shameena tells us about the brief rise of plastic surgery during the Renaissance. The two World Wars led to the innovations, making plastic and cosmetic...

July 20, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Cinema, Interview, LGBTQIA+

…And the World Heard the Sisak of the Actors Jitin and Dhruv

Our columnist Mahima brings you the candid and bold interview of the two actors Jitin Gulati and Dhruv Singhal, as the second and final part of the two-part interviews...

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