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May 19, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Democracy is Dead; Long Live Democracy!

The truth is that democracy is being murdered in this country every day. No party has the moral right, at least none among the mainstream parties, to criticise any...

March 21, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema

A Great Film on the Man Who Changed the World: Raoul Peck Gives a New Dimension to the Life of Young Marx

The director, Haiti’s former culture minister Raoul Peck, who made the Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro in 2016, wondered if he would find finance for his film. He...

March 15, 2018
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Krishna and the Gopis in Moonlight – LXV

Nilanjana retells the story of Krishna and the gopis on a moonlit night, elaborating on the Leela or the cosmic game, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths....

March 14, 2018
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Poem

Cook up a Story

A tongue in cheek poem by Dr. Amrinder, for Different Truths. I am neither into chick lit Nor do I reinvent mythology Thrillers don’t thrill me And publishers don’t...

January 4, 2018
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Her Shattered Dreams

An evocative woman-centric poem by Sarala that exposes the brutality of traditions, the patriarchal system, for Different Truths. She dreamt of a Beautiful life But all she got was...

December 5, 2017
Arun Dash
Poem

I Love my Sips of Sorrow

A lyrical poem by Arun, that’s inward-looking, in Different Truths. I love my sips of sorrow For, when they get in, They engulf me in a cocoon That happiness...

November 17, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Politics

AIKMS Condemns Maharashtra Government for Firing on Farmers, two Injured

AIKMS has also called upon all farmer bodies to come out in protest against the anti-peasant, pro-corporate policies of the Modi-led BJP-RSS government, which is hell-bent on ruining peasant’s...

November 12, 2017
Arindam Roy
Book Review, Criticism

Love Bloomed Amongst Hatred, Revenge Violence and Deaths of the 1984-Carnage in When a Mighty Tree Falls by Amrinder Bajaj

Despite the deep hurt, Amrinder Bajaj’s novel, When a Mighty Tree Falls, remained objective. In the novel, she described how some Hindus, risking their lives and limbs, saved their...

October 18, 2017
Maj Gen Raj Singh Mehta
History & Culture, War & Conflicts

The 1962 Sino-Indian War: Recalling a War that was not …it was an Indian Rout

Fought both along the 890 km long McMahon Line and opposite Western Tibet in the Ladakh region of our 4056 km long Sino-Indian borders, the 1962 War showed us...

October 14, 2017
Aishwarya Damodar
Poem

Hope

Aishwarya talks of hope in times of despair in this verse, in Different Truths. anarchic is the world – in which we live in today where money has become...

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