Ram - Different Truths

February 9, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mahabharata over Ramayana in Rajya Sabha

Congress MPs are pulling out handcuffs and seeking arrests, so to speak, possibly that of PM if he admits that he meant Shoorpanaka when he spoke of the Ramayana...

January 21, 2018
Shail Raghuvanshi
Health, International Relations, Politics, Potpourri, Science & Technology

Political Kite Flying, App Looking at the Big Picture, Child-Friendly Police Station, Mice Have a Field Day

Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu, two PMs, bond over kite-flying at Sabarmati Ashram and they paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi. The App WeCroak is born of Bhutanese folklore saying that to be...

January 17, 2018
Lily Swarn
Food, Religion

The Tamil Harvest Festival Pongal Celebrates Bounty and Camaraderie

Lily tells us about the four-day harvest festival, dedicated to the sun, in Tamil Nadu. It’s also celebrated in other states in South India. It means ‘spilling over’ of...

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...

November 1, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Gender

Am I too Modern to Handle?

Women from cities are often perceived or tagged as notorious for being too modern. However, they have their connotations of the term ‘modern’. Mahima explores the meanings of modernity,...

October 18, 2017
Maj Gen Raj Singh Mehta
History & Culture, War & Conflicts

The 1962 Sino-Indian War: Recalling a War that was not …it was an Indian Rout

Fought both along the 890 km long McMahon Line and opposite Western Tibet in the Ladakh region of our 4056 km long Sino-Indian borders, the 1962 War showed us...

September 21, 2017
Tarun Gupta
Business, Economy

How Much Tax Should a Government Collect?

Higher tax should also translate into a higher development and social security. Are we also doing that, asks Tarun, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I must...

September 11, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Fashion, History & Culture

Three Interesting Things about Body Piercing

Ritambhara tells us about the traditions and history of body piercing, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Body piercing isn’t a new concept. The two most commonly seen...

August 3, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Krishna Playing with Mud – XXXVII

Nilanjana retells a well-known tale from the Bhagavatam, about Lord Krishna eating mud. Read more to know the enchanting details, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. One...

May 14, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Gender, Special Feature

Motherhood Can Wait, Education Cannot

As the latest Census (2011) data reveals, there are over 13 million adolescent girls who are married between 10 and 19 years of age and a startling 3.8 million...

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