Oppression - Different Truths

February 7, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Majority of Indians have not Voted for BJP: Is Tyranny of the Majority in India Real?

The Muslims of India should strive to assimilate. Muslims with modern secular education who are not mullahs and maulvis should take over the leadership of Muslims. Here’s an analysis, for...

January 28, 2018
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Human Rights

Human Rights Reframed: Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was mainly drafted by the colonial powers thus voices of third world countries could not be heard in the noble document since...

December 31, 2017
Payal Talreja
Cover Story, Dissent, Films, Gender, Mass Media, Sports

Celebrating Women: The Year That Was!

Firebrand feminist, Payal, our columnist, says that from within the murk and gloom of crime against women, there were many who rose from the ashes like the mythical Phoenix....

December 19, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

The Sight of Policemen gives me the Heebie-Jeebies

It was during the impecunious student days that we traveled the city and even the country using public transport, whenever we couldn’t persuade kindly strangers to offer lifts, but...

December 12, 2017
Mona Vijaykar
Gender, Opinion

Empowered Women Stand Tall

It takes conscience, compassion, clarity, and courage to empower a victim of abuse. This whole business of empowerment is a sham, opines Mona, showing us the light at the...

October 22, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Cover Story, Gender

The Me Too Campaign: Women Stand Tall Against Sexual and Domestic Violence

The “Me Too” campaign has brought together women in a show of solidarity, of courage to make visible the enormity of sexual and domestic violence against them – their...

September 12, 2017
Payal Talreja
Dissent, Gender, People, Place

Reclaiming Pink: The Story of Sampat Pal and her Gulabi Gang

Payel profiles Sampat Pal Devi and the lathi wielding Gulabi Gang that stood up against violence and other wrongs perpetrated by husbands, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different...

August 27, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Hypnotism

Here’s a political poem by Kabir that lays bare the schemes by those in power, in Different Truths. Larger, engulfing voids are being hidden With a bunch of small...

August 22, 2017
Poornima Laxmeshwar
Poem

A Letter to You

Here’s a poem about love and identity, by Poornima, in Different Truths. Our dear unborn I wish we could breathe a breath somewhere To string together the violet stems...

July 22, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Novelist Manju Kapur Exposes the Reality of Generation Gap after 1947

Basudeb features Manju Kapur, a post-1947 novelist, an important feminist writer. He critiques her novels, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. One of the most important features of...

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