Million - Different Truths

August 9, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Cinema, Interview

How Adhiraj made Naseeruddin Shah an Internet Sensation with the Award Winning Film, Interior Café Night?

Adhiraj Bose, a young director, was just 23-years-old, when he directed the 13-minute film, Interior Café Night, with renowned actors like Naseeruddin Shah and Shernaz Patel. Three years...

July 30, 2017
Nikita Goel
Gender, Relationship & Lifestyle

What Would Happen if Suddenly, Magically, Men Menstruate and Women Could Not?

Male-female role reversals have intrigued most of us. In a 1978 satire for Ms. Magazine, feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem answered the question that so many women have asked: “What would happen,...

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...

July 11, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Defence, Obituary

The 1971-War Hero Commander B N Kavina VrC Passes Away in Australia

Commander Bahadur Nariman Kavina is the Navy officer we are talking about. As a husband, father, friend, boss and even stranger he was extraordinary, adoring, sensible, sensitive, wise, kind,...

July 10, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Cinema, Dissent, LGBTQIA+, Relationship & Lifestyle

Faraz Ansari: Will India respond to the Sisak of the LGBTQ Community?

Director Faraz Ansari’s Sisak is the first silent LGBTQ film of India that is not only creating waves at international film festivals but winning awards too; seven, so far....

July 9, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Guru Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar and Bimal Roy, Three Great Film Personalities, Were Born This Week

Three great film personalities celebrate their birthdays this week. While Guru Dutt was a brilliant filmmaker, his personal life was a mess – possibly the tragic heroes he portrayed...

July 7, 2017
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

Did we Choose the Career or the Career Chose us?

Our careers got shaped by choices we made along the way and not because we had a plan. Very few ambitious, self-driven, extremely studious friends who ended up getting...

May 31, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Two Cups of Grain…

A powerful poem from Sarala, which depicts the trials, tribulations and the joy of farmers, who starve to feed millions, in Different Truths. Let me write a poem gathering...

May 28, 2017
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism

Urdu and the Influence of Punjab

Urdu, which was till now thought to have roots in Delhi, actually took birth in Lahore and adopted Old Punjabi contrary to Braj as its base language. Later, the...

May 23, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender

Is a 12-year-old too Sexy to Play Chess?

Payal takes a hard look at the sexist behaviour of men in the patriarchal society. She points out how a mere child, a 12-year-old girl, was told that her...

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