Illegally - Different Truths

October 9, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Economy

Dollar and Gold Smuggling up: More Trouble for Shaky Rupee

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has launched a nationwide crackdown on foreign exchange smuggling, particularly of US$. For long, legal gold inflow occupied an important position, after petroleum...

May 23, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Dalits, Human Rights

Dalits Uprooted: Houses Burnt Forcibly by SDM Karchana

SDM Karchana Kuldev Singh clandestinely uprooted and broke into the hutments with JCB machines and set fire to the 40-year-old houses of 19 Dalit landless labourers in Kaundhiyara yesterday....

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, Politics

Constitutional Crisis Post-Karnataka Election Results: Supreme Court has set Precedence

Much has been written about the significance of the Karnataka developments for the wider Indian politics, and whether it signifies the coming together of the major opposition parties to...

April 30, 2018
Swati Kumar
Crime, Gender

Crime against Women in India: The Black Dot of Shame

Our society is ruled by two “M’s” – Males and Money. Genders were never equal and I doubt that they ever will be in this country. Ours is a social...

March 20, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

Victory of Putin is a Challenge to the Western Hegemony

That Putin will get elected was a certainty, but how the world fraternity would react was a matter of conjecture though the perspective of western hostility was on the...

February 27, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Potpourri, Travel & Food

Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright

Humourist Soumya narrates a real-life incident of tiger watching, in a different genre, in the weekly column. A Different Truths exclusive. The tiger, I had come to the conclusion,...

February 20, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Tripura: Beyond the Politics

The important question of Tripura ethnonational identity, inevitable as the Tripuri masses come to self-consciousness in the course of their development, may no longer be ignored by any political...

December 26, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

Memorable Meals I Have Had

Humourist Soumya tells us of the many adventures of his, in the company of others, between 1983 and 2013. He mixes humour, food, drinks, fancy-free, and footloose bohemian life...

December 5, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor, Travelogue

Close Encounters of the Wild Kind –1

Fancy-free and footloose, three friends decide on an adventurous trip. They meet an Australian bicyclist and decide to visit a wildlife resort, meeting villagers and a sadhu. Here’s the...

May 17, 2017
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy

Amma la: The Agony of Separation from Mother and Motherland

As the world celebrated Mother’s Day, on Sunday, it sharpened the agonies of separation of mother and motherland for the Tibetan Refugees, in India. Eswar profiles their pain, in...

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