Gujarati - Different Truths

March 29, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Food

Scrumptious Namkeen, Anyone?

Ruchira tells us about various namkeens, from different parts of India, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Indians are probably the most notorious foodies in the world....

March 23, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Data Mining for Poll Started in India: Facebook can Influence, but to Limited Extent

It is possible to use Facebook data to influence Indian elections because India doesn’t have a data protection law. Therefore, anything that Cambridge Analytica does in India will be...

March 19, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Rahul Gandhi, the Nest PM, Broadcasts a Message: Mamata, Maya and Akhilesh put on Notice

There cannot be any more questions asked on whether Rahul is Hindu, Christian or Muslim – he is all three rolled into one. Vote one, get two free! Great...

March 14, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Token Censure of Saffron Vandals Will Not Do: Empty Chiding by Modi Cannot Rein in Sangh Goons

Narendra Modi, for a change, broke his customary silence on the antics of the saffron brigade and condemned the pulling down of statues, if only because he realised that...

March 13, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor, Literature

The Custodian

Soumya shares the highs and lows of hitch-hiking in a truck, after a cancelled flight to Delhi, with two men and a lady. Read more about this adventure, in...

February 16, 2018
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion

India has over Eighty Ways of Draping a Sari

There are more than 80 recorded ways to wear a sari. The most common style is for the sari to be wrapped around the waist, with the loose end...

December 2, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Multiculturalism

American writers of the Indian sub-continent are women. They are Mary Anne Mohan Raj, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri and Bapsi Sidhwa, Pakistan’s important diasporic writer. In their writings, what...

November 7, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
People, Place, Travel & Food

Impressions of Italy

Our humourist dabbles in the travelogue. He likens Italy with India, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Italy is just like India. I didn’t meet a single...

June 5, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Four Geminis, Ekta Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Amisha Patel and Sonam Kapoor, Celebrate Birthdays this week

Four Gemini film personalities, Ekta Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Amisha Patel and Sonam Kapoor, present an array of talent in Bollywood. They celebrate their birthdays between June and 9, this...

May 28, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Pankaj Kapoor, Paresh Rawal: Talented Actors, Celebrate Birthdays on May 29 & 30

Two versatile actors, Pankaj Kapoor, remembered for the clumsy detective role, Karamchand, won three National Awards, celebrates his birthday on Monday, May 29. Paresh Rawal, an actor-politician, has his...

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