liberation - Different Truths

December 26, 2017
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, Relationship & Lifestyle

A Babu-Crazy Bureaucracy: Alexander the Great Syndrome Bamboozles Dignity!

Hemashri, an officer in the Northeast, gives us an insider’s view on exploitation, discrimination, the rude and arrogant behaviour of the creamy layer of people in the administrative services....

October 8, 2017
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Human Rights, International Relations, Politics

A Critical Analysis of Human Rights with Focus on Foundational Weakness and Dual Nature of Human Rights

Our Editor-at-Large (Europe), Amit, raises questions that are of immediate relevance to international politics, as human rights are increasingly ‘mainstreamed’ into the policy framework of states. He critically reflects on...

August 21, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

The Four Periods and Six Schools of Yoga

Navodita traces the antiquity of yoga and its four periods. She also outlines the six schools of Yoga, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Yoga, it is...

August 15, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Poem

We are the Living Dead!

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of India’s independence, Farheen asks some pertinent questions and wonders where is the secular India that the Founding Fathers of our liberation had...

August 14, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion, Special Feature

The Story of Krishna-Astami

On the occasion of Janma-ashtami – variously known as Krishna-Ashtami or Gokul-Ashtami – Nilanjana retells the story of the birth of Krishna. This sampurna avataar (complete incarnation) was born with all...

July 10, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Shivananda Yoga: Ignorance makes us Perceive Diversity Rather than Unity

The Self, or the Supreme Soul, is the essential nature of man, the common consciousness in all beings. Full awareness of the Self can be attained through yoga. One...

July 1, 2017
Different Truths
Book Club, Poem

Ten Selected Poems of Prof. Pushpita Awasthi from Echoes in the Earth

Here are ten selected poems of Prof. Pushpita Awasthi, selected by her, in the Book Extract, from her book, Echoes in the Earth (2016) this week. A Different Truths...

June 18, 2017
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Politics, Religion

Religion in Public Sphere: Can we Apply Rawls and Habermas Perspectives in the Indian Context?

Our Editor-at-Large, Norway-based Amit, debates on the religion in public sphere issue, in the Rawlsian and Habermasian perspectives. He contextualises these in the Indian context. Here are the erudite deliberations,...

June 13, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

My First Dance

Humourist Soumya talks of his first dance, in his tongue-in-cheek manner, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I grew up in the East, where leaping about and...

June 8, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: The Birth of Krishna – XXIX

Nilanjana recounts the story of the birth of Krishna, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Devaki was glowing with her eighth child. The glow was rather unusual....

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