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October 3, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender, Relationship & Lifestyle

Simran and Other Bollywood Babes: Coming of age

Even though a slim minority, we are ready to own up to our hidden reality, rather than be the ‘good’ daughter/sister/wife that lives her lives for others rather than...

September 20, 2017
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

It is you

A poem by Elsy that celebrates the innocence of babies, in Different Truths. The tiny tot saw her snapshot at month three and cooed, ‘look, baby brother!’. Mom said,...

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...

September 11, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Phase Where Gauri Died

Here’s a tribute for Gauri Lankesh, in verse, by Kabir, in Different Truths. I am a pen Many use me for pleasure By writing on domestic islands Few use...

September 9, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Anita Nair, a Journey towards Melliorism: The Better Man to Chain of Custody

Basudeb critiques the novels of Anita Nair, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Shornur at the district of Palakkad, Kerala, is Anita Nair’s birth place. She...

September 8, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Crime, Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

The Blue Whale Challenge and other Suicides: Parental Guidance Must Stop this Menace

Mahima discusses the dangerous Blue Whale Challenge, an Internet game, and other causes of depression that affects the tender minds of teenagers, leading to suicides. Anitha, a student activist,...

August 27, 2017
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Opinion

Nobel or Not so Nobel

The Indian Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satayarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2014. As a Nobel Peace Laureate, his concern shall encompass issues of peace and burning...

August 18, 2017
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

What is a Perfect Job?

Bangalore-based HR professional, Preeyan, tells us about the perfect job and the ‘jumpers’, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. To me, a perfect job is doing...

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...

July 30, 2017
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, History & Culture

India through Her Stamps

Sreelata tells us about the journey of India through her stamps. With the first General Post Office being opened, in 1774, in Calcutta, followed by Madras (1778) and Bombay (1792)...

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