Urdu: Today and Tomorrow
Sehar talks about Urdu, the language of emotions. She talks of Ibn Safvi, an Urdu writer from Kareli, a locality in Allahabad, who was acclaimed by Agatha Christie. Here’s...
The Crises of Hindu Identity and Patriarchal Wounds in Ice-Candy Man
Continuing with the theme of partition, Basudeb profiles the crises of Hindu identity and patriarchal wounds in Ice-Candy Man. Through the eyes of an eight-year Parsee girl living with...
Cancer: A Viral Truth
Cancer cervix is leading cancer in Indian women and the second most common worldwide. A known cause, HPV ( Human Papilloma Virus), a known mode of spread i.e sexually transmitted...
Women Hold up Half the Sky[i]: A Special Issue on IWD 2017, in Different Truths
Different Truths (DT) has been publishing special issues and has also brought out seven Anthologies of Poems on several topics in the past. Here’s the eighth Anthology of Poems,...
Why is Everyone Hounding Sasikala?
Could it be the idea of an erstwhile petty video shop owner becoming the state’s Chief Minister perhaps too much to take? Smacking of a drama that Kollywood is famous...
Crisis of Identity in Azadi by Chaman Nahal
This crisis of identity of both Hindus and Muslims has been mirrored in some major texts on partition fictions in English and in English translation. The crisis of Muslim...
Human Rights of the Elderly
As per the analysis of census 2011 data, the population of older persons in India has already crossed the unique mark of 100 million. The study records that with increasing...
Urdu and its Allahabadi Life
Fehmida Riaz, a Pakistani poetess, like other famous Urdu poets, wrote an elegy in fond memory of Firaq. In her notes to the book, Four Walls and a Black Veil,...
India and Kleptocracy: Are we a Nation of Crooks?
Why is India so corrupt? An old license and rule-bound bureaucracy with cumbersome procedures and processes with the lack of transparency aided and abetted by unscrupulous henchmen, who have been elected...
Of Cabbages and Cobblers: How Pricing Costs the People?
The question is how the dispossession of the poor is understood? It is not immediately understood by the poor and the non-poor either ignores it as an externality or...