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March 13, 2022
Michele Baron
Gender, History & Culture, Special Feature

Women Struggled More Than a Century for Empowerment

In Copenhagen, 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, German activist Clara Zetkin raised a vote, supported by women from 17 nations, to organise an International Working Women’s Day....

January 7, 2022
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

A Hole in the Bag

An intriguing story about the interconnectedness of a sling bag and its owner, Karthik. The surprise element of this fantasy fiction makes it enigmatic. Here’s the story, this week,...

July 14, 2018
Sushmita Mukherjee
Criticism

Impromptu: I am Prompted by You

Are the appearances — words, things, beings — truly impromptu? Of course, that is not the subject, the matter of this outpouring, yet, has popped, seemingly impromptu, in the...

June 6, 2018
IPA Service
Defence, International Relations, World

Colombia Is Now First Partner of NATO in Latin America: President Santos Accused of Disturbing Regional Stability

Colombia becomes NATO’s first global partner in Latin America. Those in other regions include Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, New Zealand, Japan, Mongolia, and South Korea. But planning for Colombia’s association...

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

New Kerala Labour Policy to Make State Investor-Friendly

The most significant feature of the new policy is the commendable attempt to make the state labour-friendly. A refreshing effort which is in glaring contrast to the attempts by...

April 24, 2018
Michele Baron
Short Story, Special Feature, Special Needs

the studio

A poignant story by Michele, concerning neurodiversity, for the Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. “When I am not prepping or playing a concert, or teaching, I paint,” he...

April 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

India-Hater Shahid Afridi is Out of Favour in Dubai: Police Chief Wonders why Pakistanis are Troublemakers

The only thing going for Shahid Afridi is the Muslim identity he shares with the Kashmiri. Otherwise, he is lost Pashtun in the Valley like his ‘Pashtun Idol’ Imran...

March 27, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Giving out the Prizes

A new legislation made it mandatory to spend money on CSR. This excited the author and brought him back to his activist college days, before decades of selling to...

February 27, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Potpourri, Travel & Food

Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright

Humourist Soumya narrates a real-life incident of tiger watching, in a different genre, in the weekly column. A Different Truths exclusive. The tiger, I had come to the conclusion,...

February 24, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

How Trinamool Splits Anti-BJP Consolidation: Increasing Evidence of Tacit Understanding with BJP

Are the TMC and the BJP in a clandestine tie-up of sorts? Opposition parties in Bengal are convinced that they are. Both the Congress and the CPI(M)-led Left Front...

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