Harmony - Different Truths

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 25, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Vipassana: A Logical Meditative Process through Self-observation

Broadly, ‘mindfulness’ defines any sort of meditation. Vipassana means ‘to see things as they really are’. It is a logical process through self-observation. This form of meditation was discovered...

August 25, 2017
Geethanjali Dilip
Poem, Special Feature

Elephantine

Geethanjali weaves a string of stories and parables to invoke Sri Ganesha, in the special feature, in Different Truths वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ । निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा ॥ Meaning: 1: I meditate on Sri Ganesha – Who...

August 23, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Opinion

Does the World Really Deserve Democracy?

Mahima asks if we deserve Democracy, in her regular column, exclusively in Different Truths. I pen this piece in times, which I feel are dark times of Democracy, whether...

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 13, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Fiction, Governance, History & Culture

How did the Socioeconomic Undercurrents Survive Political Upheavals in India?

The wheel turns full circle when we find that many of the modern day concepts are rooted in our rich socioeconomic and sociopolitical heritage. Tapati finds hordes of interesting...

August 5, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Potpourri

Three Facts about International Friendship Day

Though July 30 is the official International Friendship Day (IFD), according to the United Nations, the majority of the countries across the world celebrate this day on the first...

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 24, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Tantra: Material World and its Experiences for Attaining Enlightenment

Satyananda Yoga believes that Tantra is a collective title, which covers a vast range of practical teachings leading to the expansion of human consciousness and the liberation of primal...

June 14, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Gender

Tale of an Iftar with Women, with Sindoor, without Burqa

Twelve women, including Hana Mohsin Khan, a pilot, Nazia Erum, founder of The Luxury Label, Rana Safvi, historian and writer, and Rukhsaar Salem, founder of Mother Digest, decided to...

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