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February 10, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations, Politics, Security

India Must Avoid Military Action in Maldives: Situation is Completely Different From 1984

The recent crisis in the Maldives has to be seen in the larger and long-term context of Sino-Indian rivalry to gain supremacy in the Indian Ocean Region and the...

January 21, 2018
Vedatrayee Dutta
Legal Issues, Opinion

Crisis in Democracy: Is it a Protest or a Mutiny by the Four Judges to Rebel against the CJI?

Legal stalwarts and eminent personalities like former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee and former Attorney-General of India Soli Sorabjee have expressed great condemnation towards the step taken by the...

January 12, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Corruption, Legal Issues, Politics

Fight Corruption in Judiciary, Fight Fascist Attacks of Modi Government

Justices J. Chalemeswar, Joseph Kurien, Ranjan Gogoi and M.B. Lokur addressed a press conference saying they had been forced to come before the nation in a step they themselves...

December 31, 2017
Payal Talreja
Cover Story, Dissent, Films, Gender, Mass Media, Sports

Celebrating Women: The Year That Was!

Firebrand feminist, Payal, our columnist, says that from within the murk and gloom of crime against women, there were many who rose from the ashes like the mythical Phoenix....

December 30, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Films

Top 10 Outstanding Indian Short Films of 2017

With the growing influence of the digital media, expanding wingspan of the Internet and very less time at the hands of the modern film viewer, short films are increasingly attracting...

December 29, 2017
Sreelata Menon
Economy, Politics

10 Major Takeaways from 2017: The Year That Was and the Year That Could Be

Sreelata lists 10 major takeaways from 2017. She tells us the year that was and also the year that could be, in the Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. 1....

October 23, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Gender, Law & Order

From Practice to Perfect: Sex with Minor Wife Criminalised by the SC

In a landmark judgement, the Apex Court ruled out the exception u/s 375(2) of the IPC as being unconstitutional, stating that if any husband engages in sexual intercourse with...

October 18, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Dissent, Economy, Politics

Protests against WTO Restrictions on Food Subsidy: India has the Largest Number of Hungry and Malnourished People

AIKMS has stressed that today India has the largest number of hungry and malnourished people. It has 48% of the under-fives who are seriously malnourished and 56% of its...

September 6, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender, Human Rights

Why should Criminalisation of Marital Rape Destabilise Marriage?

Payal takes a hard look at the issue of marital rape, its criminalisation and the argument that it would destabilise the institution of marriage. India should learn from other...

July 10, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Cinema, Dissent, LGBTQIA+, Relationship & Lifestyle

Faraz Ansari: Will India respond to the Sisak of the LGBTQ Community?

Director Faraz Ansari’s Sisak is the first silent LGBTQ film of India that is not only creating waves at international film festivals but winning awards too; seven, so far....

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