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August 20, 2017
Debjani Guha
Cover Story, Education & Career, History & Culture

A Comparative Evaluation of the Scholastic Excellence of Nalanda and Al-Qarawiyyin

Nalanda was primarily the Buddhist institution of higher learning, in India. Al-Qarawiyyin has been a centre of Islamic studies, in Morocco. While Nalanda was lost in the ravages of...

July 20, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Science & Technology

Air Travel Becoming Awesome: Hats Off to Technologies!

Farheen tells us how technology is making air travel much easier these days. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Air travel is one of the...

March 29, 2017
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, Politics

Pegyal, the 146th Martyr, Self-immolated Himself for the Liberation of Tibet

Pegyal is the 146th Tibetan to self-immolate and the first reported in 2017. This is the second self-immolation from the region – Nyarong. The 24-year-old bachelor was the sole...

March 11, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Landslide Victory of BJP in UP, Uttarakhand: NaMo and Amit Shah Scripted a New Electoral Narrative

Landslide victory of the BJP, winning 325 seats out of the 403, in the UP and in Uttarakhand, the party bagged 57 seats out of the total 70. It...

November 21, 2016
Shail Raghuvanshi
People

Life is no Magic Carpet for Salman in a Faraway Land!

Twenty-eight-year-old Salman is from Bhadohi, in East Uttar Pradesh. He was just 8-year-old, when he came to Chennai with his father. He and his six brothers are all in...

September 22, 2016
Michelle Yost
Advocacy, People

The Harvest

The labour of love never goes waste. It is always blessed with fruition. Michelle, our columnist, and her partner, Md. Kaushik put their shoulders to the wheel. Against all odds,...

June 19, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Cover Story, Human Rights, People

Religious dissension partitioned of India in 1947. Two states, Bengal and Punjab, were spliced into two. An entire repertoire of Bengali literature, with its distinct echoes in cinema, documents the agony....

May 24, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Dissent, Human Rights, Politics

Forty Ninth Anniversary of Great Naxalbari Peasant Uprising

Naxalbari, a small town in the Darjeeling district, in north Bengal, was the epicentre of armed struggle against the betrayal of CPM and Bangla Congress, in 1967. These parties launched brutal...

April 1, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Economy, Politics

BJP Betrays Farmers, ignores Saminathan Commission Recommendations

In 1990-91, a government committee headed by the renowned agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan had noted that more than half of the peasants have no land, while 54% of farm land is...

March 1, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Dissent

Loot and Excesses on Farmers by Allahabad Administration

AIKMS in its press release stated that Allahabad district administration has been looting and torturing poor farmers despite Allahabad High Court’s directives. All India Kisan Mazdoor Sangh (AIKMS), in its...

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