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February 16, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

CPI(M) Under Severe Pressure Over Murder Of YC Worker: Congress Ups the Ante, Plans Statewide Agitation

The Congress is bent on extracting as much political mileage out of the Shuhaib murder as is possible. The party is planning to up the ante on the issue...

February 7, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Azaadi Does not Brook Compulsion-Vumpulsion, say JNU Students

More than 7,000 students of JNU have collectively and compulsorily boycotted compulsory attendance. Teachers, too, are refusing to mark attendance. Here’s a report for Different Truths. The word ‘compulsory’...

January 31, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

People Lose Faith as Moral Values in Politics Decline Sharply

Moral values in politics have been on the decline for at least last three decades, but the recent decay has been shocking. What has been most dangerous is the...

January 29, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

The Trump Spectacle and the End of Truth

The 45th President of the United States, may be a notorious denier of truth and understand next to nothing about politics — as a reality TV star and celebrity,...

January 13, 2018
Suveera Sharma
Crime, History & Culture

Lawless Kowloon was a City within a City, a Hub of Vice

The dark past of one of the major hubs of the city was the infamous walled city of Kowloon. It became a city within a city. A haven for...

January 7, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Films, History & Culture, Opinion

Padmini in the Ocean of Controversies

Padmini’s narrative has found itself being retold in several ways over several centuries, in the form of poems, stories, dance dramas, comic books, plays, and films. Each retelling is...

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...

October 31, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Winning the Gujarat Assembly Elections 2017 Crucial for both BJP and Congress

Our Associate Editor, Navodita, takes a hard look at the forthcoming Gujarat Assembly Elections in 2017. It will be held in two phases on December 9 and December 14....

October 15, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Business, Calamity, Crime

Aarushi Denied Justice, Deadly Curse of Elphinstone, From Wagon R to Biopic, Bitcoin Billionaire and We Want Sauce

Shail reviews the fortnight that was in verse. Aarushi’s parents were acquitted of murder charges by the Allahabad High Court. In Mumbai, many died due to the collapse of...

September 12, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Relationship & Lifestyle

Cast(e)ing Aspersions on a new Bride

Our humourist, Soumya, tells us how the grandmother-in-law of his new bride from another community was questioned. Find out more, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The...

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