Politics - Different Truths

June 21, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Advocacy, Cinema, Gender

Will the Strong Social Message from Phullu ever reach the Right Masses?

Our Delhi-based columnist Mahima tells us why Phullu, a film meant for the masses to educate them about menstrual hygiene at the right age, will not reach them. And...

June 3, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Advocacy, Opinion

The Choice to Eat: Restrict it to Your Platter, no Blood Splatter Please!

In the wake of the Kerala Beef Fest row in early May, Mahima, an animal lover, urges us to restrict the food on our platter and avoid blood splatter,...

April 9, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema, Cover Story

Jaya Bachchan is Another Name for Elan, Stoicism, and Dignity

The enigmatic female actor, Jaya Bachchan, with the girl-next door turns 69, today. Smriti profiles the female-actor, who epitomised élan, stoicism and dignity. Her charismatic aura makes her the...

April 8, 2017
Different Truths
Book Club

Onaatah, Shunned and Shamed, a Victim of Sexual Assault, in Search of Hope!

Is there justice outside courtrooms for a rape victim? The law might take its own course, but what does a woman do when the society shuts its door on...

March 13, 2017
Dr. Tripti Sharan
Health

Cancer: A Viral Truth

Cancer cervix is leading cancer in Indian women and the second most common worldwide. A known cause, HPV ( Human Papilloma Virus), a known mode of spread i.e sexually transmitted...

March 12, 2017
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Economy, Politics

BJP Steamrolls UP: Will its True Development Mean Creation of Jobs for Rest of India Here?

BJP steamrolled the 2017 Assembly elections in UP. The narrative of the winning party is that the people’s mandate were for the development of UP. Bhaskar hopes that now...

March 10, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Exit Polls: Who will come to Power in 2017 Assembly Polls in the Five States?

In less than 24 hours the verdict of the people in the five states, Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Punjab, Goa and Uttarakhand, shall be pronounced, as the results of the...

February 26, 2017
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Economy, Society

The Culture of Poverty or the Poverty of Culture in UP and Bihar

There are biases and prejudices against the poor. Bhaskar takes two interesting case studies, in Patna, Bihar, and Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, and analyses the cause and effects of poverty,...

February 12, 2017
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Economy, Politics

Of Cabbages and Cobblers: How Pricing Costs the People?

The question is how the dispossession of the poor is understood? It is not immediately understood by the poor and the non-poor either ignores it as an externality or...

November 29, 2016
Nalini Priyadarshni
Poem

We, the People

A poet is the product of the politics of his/her times. Here’s Nalini, as a Citizen Journalist poet, on the current issue of demonetisation and its effects on the polity,...

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