Special - Different Truths

August 20, 2017
Debjani Guha
Cover Story, Education & Career, History & Culture

A Comparative Evaluation of the Scholastic Excellence of Nalanda and Al-Qarawiyyin

Nalanda was primarily the Buddhist institution of higher learning, in India. Al-Qarawiyyin has been a centre of Islamic studies, in Morocco. While Nalanda was lost in the ravages of...

August 15, 2017
Sarika Sarkar Das
Law & Order, Politics, Terrorism

No Independence Celebrations Day in Assam: Are we Truly Liberated?

When the whole nation is decked up in tricolor, saffron, white and green, Assam is terribly silent. It observes bandh, year after year. The saddest part of it is...

August 15, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Poem

We are the Living Dead!

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of India’s independence, Farheen asks some pertinent questions and wonders where is the secular India that the Founding Fathers of our liberation had...

August 14, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga: The Ancient Tradition of the Eight-limbed Path

The Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga codified and popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois, during the 20th century, and is often promoted as a modern-day form of classical Yoga. Our Yoga expert, Navodita,...

August 13, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Fiction, Governance, History & Culture

How did the Socioeconomic Undercurrents Survive Political Upheavals in India?

The wheel turns full circle when we find that many of the modern day concepts are rooted in our rich socioeconomic and sociopolitical heritage. Tapati finds hordes of interesting...

August 7, 2017
Dr. Sanjeeb Sircar
Education & Career, Music

Importance of Music as a Regular Subject in our Education Curriculum

An award-winning and internationally acclaimed Sitarist and multi-instrumentalist, Dr. Sanjeeb, tells us about the importance and relevance of music in our education curriculum, exclusively in Different Truths. Music plays...

August 5, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Potpourri

Three Facts about International Friendship Day

Though July 30 is the official International Friendship Day (IFD), according to the United Nations, the majority of the countries across the world celebrate this day on the first...

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...

July 30, 2017
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, History & Culture

India through Her Stamps

Sreelata tells us about the journey of India through her stamps. With the first General Post Office being opened, in 1774, in Calcutta, followed by Madras (1778) and Bombay (1792)...

July 25, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Puppy Love: The K9 Kind

Humourist Soumya talks about canine love, with paroxysms of emotions, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The first canine love in my life was my grandfather’s Daschund,...

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