Play - Different Truths

February 19, 2018
IPA Service
Conflict & Resolution, Crime, Identity, Law & Order, Mass Media, Politics, Security, Terrorism, War & Conflicts

Kashmiri Journalists, Real and Unreal: Many of Them Owe Allegiance to Pakistan

Here’s a report on Kashmiri journalists, real and unreal, and how they are indoctrinated against India, for Different Truths. Kamran Yusuf is a Kashmiri photo-journalist. The other day, the...

February 17, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Northeast States Brace for High-Stakes Polls: All Eyes on Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland

Incumbents in the three states are expecting major challenges from the BJP which is making an aggressive campaign in Tripura, as well as Christian, dominated tribal states of Nagaland...

February 13, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

UP By-Elections a Test for BJP and Opposition: Results will set the Tone for Coming Lok Sabha Poll

The dismal record of the Modi government, as also the Yogi government, in employment generation could also be a major issue in the by-elections. The deterioration in law and...

February 12, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema, Politics

Lilywhite Kamal Paints Lotus Rajini Saffron

Kamal is not sure if Rajini is saffron but he is sure enough that he probably isn’t. With ‘saffron’ Kamal is conveying that Rajini if he is saffron, must...

February 1, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Budgetary Rural Push not enough to Deal with Farm Distress

The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has given no sops to the middle classes by offering any concessions in the income tax rates. The industrial sector has been assured of...

January 30, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Challenges for the Two National Parties Ahead of the 2019 Elections

Both the national parties, Congress and the BJP, have moved beyond what they stood for in their ‘original form’ of course but we need a leader that can represent...

January 29, 2018
Mira Pawar
Tribute

National Youth Day at the FTTI Pune

The birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda is celebrated as National Youth Day in India in most educational institutions. In 1984, the Indian government had declared that his birthday which...

January 24, 2018
Mariyam Zafar
Cinema

Revisiting Rafoo Chakkar: Villainy, Crossdressing, and Chuckles Enliven the Comedy

At a time when men – Dev (Rishi Kapoor) and Salim (Paintal) – dressing up as women wasn’t a comedy norm, the mere transformation of both the actors is hilarious. Not...

January 9, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Parenting, People, Relationship & Lifestyle

Wish Colleagues Could be Friends?

Hemashri looks inwards and wonders if colleagues could be friends, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Somewhere I read that colleagues are friends ‘imposed’ upon us! Just...

December 14, 2017
Bushra Alvi Razzack
Poem

The Culprit

A powerful protest poem by Bushra. Here we see the poet as a Social Journalist, in Different Truths. My poem, The Culprit, was written when I was in the...

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