Situation - Different Truths

July 22, 2017
Different Truths
Book Club

My Mother is a Tribute to a Cancer Patient who battled with Fortitude

Subhrajyotri details the year-long struggle of his mother against Cancer. He talks about the doctors who tried their best to help her revive. Here’s a soulful tribute by a...

July 20, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Cinema, Interview, LGBTQIA+

…And the World Heard the Sisak of the Actors Jitin and Dhruv

Our columnist Mahima brings you the candid and bold interview of the two actors Jitin Gulati and Dhruv Singhal, as the second and final part of the two-part interviews...

July 19, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Save the Women…

A woman-centric poem where a hapless rape victim becomes a saviour of the weak and the feeble, by Sarala, in Different Truths. Far away in that distant valley A...

July 14, 2017
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

Be Focussed while Choosing a Career – II

Continuing on how to choose a career, Bangalore-based HR professional, Preeyan, talks of the various career options. The sport has also become professional and can make a great career....

July 11, 2017
Payal Talreja
Crime, Games, Human Rights

Let Us Talk About Rape

Rape is not just sex. It’s about control and power. Payal takes a hard look rape, its survivors and suggests viable solutions to this problem, in the weekly column,...

July 9, 2017
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Opinion, Politics, Society

Does Diversity of India Require Structural Changes to Manage Ethnic and Religious Tussles?

The Indian party system is more or less based on the caste system and religious affiliations; political parties tend to support their ethnic and religious affiliations/ideology, thus creating an...

July 4, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Wellness

Rain, Rain, go Away…

This ‘season of discontent’ seems to be perennial in some people’s lives. They are the kill-joys who squash our enthusiasm with their expectations of gloom and doom. Their blame...

July 2, 2017
K Pankajam
Books, Politics, Subaltern & Dalits

A Retrospective of Concern for Human Values: Letters to Namdeo Dhasal by Chandramohan S

Chandramohan’s poems portray subaltern life with exactitude and his concern for human values is quite evident in almost all poems in this collection. Poem after poem one can sense...

June 27, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Saying yes Always? Say no too!

Being compliant at the drop of a hat is a metaphor for ‘I am a door mat, walk all over me with your dirty feet.’ We need to exit...

June 24, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Nayantara Sahgal: A Novelist of the Indian Corridors of Political Power

Basudeb profiles Nayantara Sahgal, the second daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (sister of Jawaharlal Nehru). An important woman novelist of the 20th century, she penned many political novels too,...

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