Responsibility - Different Truths

September 15, 2021
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, Health, Technology

Using Home Cameras to Monitor the Elderly

Rita tells us how technology can be used to take care of the elderly. Patient Safety day is on September 17. A Special Feature exclusively for Different Truths. We’ve...

September 1, 2021
Parvathy Ramachandran
Poem

She Died Just Once and not More

A woman-centric poem about the difficulties, by Parvathy, exclusively for Different Truths. Die once, as a brave fighter and live too alike a fighter yet more times you are...

May 12, 2021
Dr. Gauranga Mohanta
Aesthetics, Environment, Language, Multiculturalism, People, Place, Special Feature, Spirituality, Tribute

Revisiting the Idea of School Education of Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore wanted to defend the freedom he enjoyed in his family, for all humanity. He remained firmly opposed to colonial education that aimed at material prosperity. He believed...

September 24, 2018
Johanna Climenko
Cover Story, History & Culture, Multiculturalism, People, Special Feature

Travelling the World in NYC: Conversations with Cab Drivers and Other Multi-Cultural Excursions

The interplay of different cultures – read multiculturalism – opens the horizons to a person, who is compassionate and deeply observant. As a Dance/Movement Therapist, nonverbal communication is the...

September 19, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Advocacy, Development, Human Rights, Mass Media

Media Literacy: A Need for Development of India

There are very few mainstream news channels or news organisations that cover developmental issues with the aim of promoting ‘public service journalism’. Most organisations are lost in their need...

July 17, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee

The Price of Life

Here’s an evocative real-life account of the survivors during the partition, in 1947. A little lad was celebrating the survival of his mother and him, dancing the Bhangra –...

June 25, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Why is Arun Jaitley Wrong on Petrol Tax?

The Narendra Modi government’s oil policy has been so convoluted that it punishes the consumers when international crude oil prices move both ways. When prices go up, the dynamic...

June 20, 2018
Atindra Nath Das
Advocacy, Opinion

You Need a Classroom to Break the Chain

It’s time we understand how education can do wonders in eliminating child labour, opines Atindra, for Different Truths. A little less than 1.5 crore children call Jharkhand their home....

June 9, 2018
Reetwika Banerjee
Crime, Cyber Crime

Secure Your Smartphone from Zero Day Attack

The snowballing boom in the mobile industry over the last decade has accelerated the scope of Zero Day Attacks and is quickly spreading across the globe like a pandemic....

June 6, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, People

A Friendship Soured

Hemashri recounts a painful, real-life experience, in a fictional voice, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Syamoli still wonders whether colleagues could ever be friends! She simply...

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