Minutes - Different Truths

April 10, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

One to One Strategy of Mamata for 2019 Poll is Workable: Perfect Understanding Needed between Congress and Regional Parties

Mamata had a meeting with the Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on March 28 and it appears that Sonia was emphatic on the leading role of the Congress in this...

April 9, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Anti-Trafficking Bill is the Worst Victim of Lok Sabha Logjam

The long-pending legislative initiative by Women and Child Welfare Minister Maneka Gandhi — The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018 — could not be introduced at...

April 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

India-Hater Shahid Afridi is Out of Favour in Dubai: Police Chief Wonders why Pakistanis are Troublemakers

The only thing going for Shahid Afridi is the Muslim identity he shares with the Kashmiri. Otherwise, he is lost Pashtun in the Valley like his ‘Pashtun Idol’ Imran...

April 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Irani Circular and a Government Running Scared but I&B Minister Persisting with Filmy Style

The Modi-led NDA government was in a hot-and-sour soup, spicy to the tongue of Modi detractors like Shourie, thanks to Information & Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani, who overnight sought...

April 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, Tribute

Fifty Years after the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Issues of Racial Inequality, Injustice Still Relevant in the United States

The steps our country has made toward justice and equality since King’s death have been partial victories, born of mass collective struggles of the African-American, women’s, labour, immigrant, LGBTQ,...

March 8, 2018
IPA Service
Business, Economy, International Relations, Politics

Vietnam is now a Story of Success and Growth

Along the business center of the country, Ho Chi Minh City is today the hub around which Vietnam’s “socialist-oriented market economy” revolves. The oxymoronic nature of that phrase is...

February 23, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Travel & Food

Venice: The Wondrous Floating City

Ruchira takes us on a tour of Venice, a quaint city built on a cluster of 118 islands, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. This quaint city...

February 15, 2018
Anumita Roy
Crime, Parenting

Florida High School Shootout: Are School Children Meant to Die Senselessly, asks a Mother

If we look at the statistics of gun violence in schools, it is a staggering data of numbers. Since 2013, there have been 290 incidents in which a gun...

February 7, 2018
Lily Swarn
Food

A Nursery Rhyme and the Story of Peach Cobbler

Lily tells us about a fun dessert called a cobbler! The unique name came about as this dish was cobbled together by early American settlers with fruit that was...

February 2, 2018
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

What is Out of the Box Thinking?

Ideas are building blocks for change and when you are able to implement these ideas and measure the change you are close to becoming capable of “out of the...

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