Mind and Muscle
Hong Kong is the world’s tallest city. The iconic buildings that dot the skyline of this wonderful city are by no means second-fiddle to its natural beauty. Each one...
Rights of the Elderly: Government Policies and Schemes for Older Persons
Rita takes a look into the rights of the elderly and educates us about various government policies and schemes for the elders, in the weekly, exclusively for Different Truths....
Work Anniversary: Independence, Resilience, and Unexpected Blessings
Forty years ago, Soumya defied family expectations, escaped a destructive lifestyle, and pursued a successful career. He looks back at life in an exclusive for Different Truths. Forty years...
Question Marks that Still Haunt the Girl-child Education in India
Many girls are enrolled in schools but they never reach the classroom. Sehar details the reasons for low percentage of the girl-child education, which stops them from empowerment, for Different Truths....
Freedom
Dr Molly critiques the year-long celebration of the 75th year of Independence, exclusively for Different Truths. now that furore and fanfare waves are over of an over preened freedom we...
Women Struggled More Than a Century for Empowerment
In Copenhagen, 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, German activist Clara Zetkin raised a vote, supported by women from 17 nations, to organise an International Working Women’s Day....
A Narrative on Women, Feminism, Sexuality and Politics in Contemporary India
Sonia Gandhi’s unperturbed state in her husband’s funeral is acceptable to the urban and sophisticated Indians as Sonia Gandhi is cloning a ‘male’ behavior and thus striving to achieve...
Empowerment, Feminism and the Hardyian Fallacy
Thomas Hardy’s heroines are not victims of sexual anesthesia. Sue is quite defiant in her stating her sexual preferences and never hesitates to be vocal about it. What is...
Universalism Vs Relativism: Honour Killings of Women in India
Cases of honour killings represent an old tussle between universality of human rights and particularity/relativism – in this case, particular. Against this background, this article critically examines the role...
Sheroes in Indian Mythology: Examples for Contemporary Women
Navodita tells us about the sheroes in Indian mythology, who are examples for the contemporary women. Here she talks of two such protagonists Savitri and Radha, ‘modern’ in their approaches then...