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December 19, 2016
Prof. Yashpal Sharma
Dance, Music

A Peek into the Acclaimed Strings N Steps Festival

The genesis of the name of the festival has a story of its own. Kathak dancer Sangeeta Majumder named this festival as ‘Strings N Steps’ after her ‘Kathak-Hawaiian Guitar Duet...

November 5, 2016
Shirin Shabana Khan
Crime, Gender, Human Rights

Reality and Intervention of Witch Hunting: A Crime against Human Dignity

The easiest way to grab a woman’s property in rural hinterland is to brand her a witch. Unbelievable but horrifically true in 21st century India, women in the interiors of states are beaten, paraded naked, disgraced, ostracised and then robbed of...

October 19, 2016
Lily Swarn
Relationship & Lifestyle, Travel & Food

Army Life in Dinjan: The Land of Fauna, Flora, Fear and Folklore

Dinjan, the Cantonment, was famous for its airfield. It was built by thousands of plantation labourers on an Assam tea plantation, in March 1942, due to the Japanese invasion of Burma....

August 22, 2016
Neelum S. Gour
Mass Comm.

Retrobrowsings:Old Enough to be Young

Neelum revisits a February 1977 issue of JS, in her weekly column. She relives the quintessential 1970s and the search for identity by the youth then. She reminisces that being...

June 11, 2016
Lily Swarn
Cover Story, Human Rights, Short Story

Chhotu

Deprivation, born out of poverty and hunger, has snatched away the carefree childhood from millions of children in India and other Third World countries. Here’s Lily’s short story, based on real...

June 7, 2016
Arindam Roy
Potpourri

Spooky Gour!

In his over three-decade journey as a journalist, Arindam shows us the many faces of newsrooms in India, at the turn of the Millennium. It’s about the glimpses of life both...

April 23, 2016
Anindita Chatterjee
Cover Story, Memoir, People

Rhapsodies to the City of Joy by a Kolkataphile

Kolkata breathes life. In its many shades and hues, its agonies and ecstasies, it is the identity of a Kolkataphile, Anindita. Here, in a personal account, she pays tribute to...

March 29, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Dissent, Education & Career, Subaltern & Dalits

Dr Sayeda Hameed Concerned about Improper Implementation of RTE

Caritas India and PVCHR jointly organised a national interface on ‘Reality of Implementation of Right to Education Act’. The chief guest, Dr Sayeda Hameed, former Member Planning Commission expressed her deep...

March 11, 2016
Arindam Roy
Arts, Opinion

Art and Artiste

This is perhaps the longest intro in Different Truths. Please hear me out and you’ll know why I am saying what I am saying. Am not blaming or condemning anyone....

March 8, 2016
Sheikha A
Books

Spiritual, Passionate and Idyllic Poems by Three Poets

Sheikha reviews, Igniting Key, a collection of poems by three eminent poets, Pramila Khadun, Dr. A.V. Koshy, and Dr. Bina Biswas for Different Truths. Igniting Key by Pramila Khadun, Dr....

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