Odisha - Different Truths

April 6, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Beauty, Fashion, History & Culture

Solah Shringaar: Enchantingly Dolled to Beauty in 16 Steps

In Hindu mythology “sixteen shringaars” correspond to the sixteen phases of the moon, which in turn is connected with a woman’s menstrual cycle. It is believed that Solah Shringaar...

March 28, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mamata Bending the Bow to Blunt the Arrow of BJP: Bengal Challenge Frustrates Foot in Delhi

Mamata Banerjee has one foot in West Bengal, the other in New Delhi, giving her all to cobble a Third Front which is a resurrection that always fails at...

March 14, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Tremors in NDA Camp Can Alter 2019 Results

Instead of expanding the base the BJP seems to have lost both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Will this mar the expansionist vision of the BJP in the South? Here’s...

February 28, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mayawati is Bucking Trends in Dalit Politics: Electoral Gambles, Not Ideological Challenge

The BSP czarina, Mayawati, has evidently decided that teaming up with the former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda’s party in Karnataka is her best option. A report, for Different...

February 5, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Supreme Court Upholds Property Rights of Daughter: Anomalies in Hindu Succession Act Removed

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has upheld the right of daughters to be entitled to equal shares in the ancestral property as the sons. Here’s a weekly...

December 30, 2017
Lily Swarn
Creative Writing, Food, Poem

My Journey as a Poet and Writer in 2017

Our columnist, Lily, looks back at 2017. She recounts her journey as a writer and poet, detailing her more than a year-long journey with this webzine, as Special Feature,...

December 7, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Activism, Advocacy

Child Health and Malnutrition: WCD Minister Endorses CRY-VCRO Campaign

‘Giving children of Odisha a healthy start’, a six-month-long initiative organised by VCRO and CRY, reached out to children and mothers of 131 villages of five tribal districts in...

August 3, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Human Rights

Joint Campaign by VRCO and CRY to Address Child Health and Malnutrition

Giving Children of Odisha a Healthy Start’, a six month-long initiative organised by VCRO and CRY, will reach out to children and mothers of 158 villages of five tribal...

January 14, 2017
Mahua Maharana
Book Club, Criticism

Rape, Secrets of the Virtual World dealt with in the Woman-centric Novel of Sujata

The novel, The Other End of the Corridor, by Sujata Rajpal, has a free flowing story line, with plots and sub-plots blending seamlessly. Changes happen, relationships changes, relationships crashes but these...

January 4, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

Folklore: Lord Jagannath offered Rasagullas to Lakshmi to appease her!

The romantic legend that one hears in Odisha is that the Goddess Lakshmi was irked with her husband as he went off for a nine-day trip without her consent. She...

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