Strong - Different Truths

June 11, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Creamy Layer Turns Messy and Uncanny: Supreme Court Bench Skips Most Contentious Issues

The decision by a vacation bench of the Supreme Court in a case about reservation in promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes last week may not have been...

June 8, 2018
Anumita Roy
Food

Delicious Maacher Kaliya: A Fish Delicacy in a Bengali Home

Maacher Kaiya is a fish delicacy in a Bengali home. Anumita, our Managing Editor, shares the recipe, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Geography has a vital...

June 8, 2018
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Her Burning Heart…

The pain and agony of a mother in an old age home has been evocatively portrayed, by Sarala, exclusively for Different Truths. Behind that burning candle There stands a...

June 7, 2018
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Vision of Akrura – LXXV

Nilanjana recounts the tale of Akrura’s vision, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. “Akrura was so lucky that he got to ride Balarama and Krishna!” Parikshit observed....

June 5, 2018
IPA Service
Defence, Politics

Grenades Thrown and Shortages Borne

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman clarified that there’s no “scam in Rafale”. She also reiterated that those shouting “ammunition shortage” should be asking themselves. There was shortage before 2014. A...

June 5, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, Riots & Violence

Shiv Sena-BJP Rift Foments Communal Tension

The three wards of the old city in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, witnessed a mob violence in which houses and shops were set aflame, and vehicles were damaged. There were two...

June 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Why is Rahul Gandhi Finally Adopting Mamata Model for 2019 Poll?

The Congress President Rahul Gandhi has been acting as the unifier of the anti-BJP forces giving up the arrogance associated with the grand old party that it is the...

June 4, 2018
Arindam Roy
Cover Story, Education & Career, Humor

Is our Education System a Farce? – I

These days if a student secures 70% marks, s/he is sad. It like bad second division in our times. Arindam reminisces about examinations during his time. Here he recounts...

June 4, 2018
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Music of Love

A love poem, by Deeya, exclusively for Different Truths. Rivers run back stifled weeds mock the time the sorrow of life the soreness-brown humbug that fade away with time never...

June 2, 2018
Tatjana Debeljacki
Book Serialisation, Criticism, Poem

Perfection – II

Here’s the second and final part of the serialising Tatjana’s new book, Perfection, in three languages, Serbian and Japanese, other than English, exclusively for Different Truths. The Faraway Horizons...

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