Muslim - Different Truths

March 10, 2017
Nikita Goel
Opinion, Relationship & Lifestyle

Women Subjugation and the Role of World Religions in its Continuance

There have been researches done on all religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Protestant and Catholic Christianity, Islam, and native indigenous religions – they preach the same beliefs on a...

March 8, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Tehmina Durrani: A Champion of Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan

Tehmina Durrani arrests worldwide attention immediately after the publication of her first novel Blasphemy. Her second novel My Feudal Lord exposes the miserable position of a woman pitted against the patriarchal background...

March 5, 2017
Arindam Roy
Edit, Gender, Special Feature

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,...

March 2, 2017
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism

Akbar Allahabadi Infused Humour in Serious Subjects to Enrich Urdu Literature

The name of Syed Akbar Husain, popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi, seems to echo quite loudly from books written on Urdu literature, Allahabad and the plural culture of our nation. Given...

February 27, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Phase Five Polls in UP: Split of Muslim Votes between SP-Cong Alliance and BSP to help BJP

The BJP strategy has been to tackle polarisation of Muslim votes with the counter-polarisation of Hindu votes in its favour. Towards that end, we already have star campaigners, Modi...

February 21, 2017
Sunil Kumar Banerjee
History & Culture, Politics

Musings on Martyrdom: Ibaadat sey Shahdat!

The Cellular Jail, in Port Blair, completed in 1906, is a National Memorial and a place of pilgrimage for all freedom loving people. Many today would be proud to know...

February 19, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Third Phase Polls: UP Heartland to Witness SP-BJP Clash; Muslims and Dalits might Favour BSP

Central UP has been voting in the third phase amidst jumlas and high-profile campaigning across 12 districts for 69 Assembly seats. Although there are no clear signs of...

February 15, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Bijnor Murder to Polarise the Second Phase of Voting in UP; Rebels in Cong, BJP Spoilers in the Uttarakhand Polls

In the second phase of polling in UP, 721 candidates are in the fray out of which 69 are female, while there is also a nominee from the third...

February 7, 2017
Sunil Kumar Banerjee
History & Culture, Politics, Technology

Udta Punjab: Rising like a Phoenix from its Fractured Past!

Punjab had won it’s its statehood some years after India’s Independence but this had not entirely satisfied the Sikh majority. The Green Revolution of the sixties had given the Jat Sikhs and...

November 30, 2016
Lily Swarn
People, Place

Ferozepur, a Frontier District of Punjab, Blends Memory, Martyrs and Music

Ferozepur, an ancient city on the banks of the Sutlej, is said to be built by Feroze Shah Tughlak in the 14th century. The old city is surrounded by ten gates....

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