the soldier - Different Truths

May 22, 2018
Maj Gen Raj Singh Mehta
Defence, Gender, People

Capt. Devika: An Officer and a Lady, who Personified Courage

Maj. Gen. Raj recounts the true story of a brave lady doctor, Capt. Devika Gupta, and how she risked her life and limbs to save a wounded soldier. An...

May 17, 2018
IPA Service
Terror Attack, Terrorism

Ramadan Peace is all a Hoax: Data shows no Letup in Terror Attacks While Fasting

Let’s admit it, Ramadan or Ramzan has never been an excuse for Islamic warriors to stop fighting or firing. They continued to fast and say their five times a day...

February 26, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations, Politics, Security, Terrorism, War & Conflicts

Megaphone From Across the Border: Inaction of Modi Govt. Curdles Kashmir Problem

Houses in Silikote have been shaking since February 20. The village is 10 km from Uri town. It is separated from Pakistan by a gushing stream that flows in...

February 17, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, War & Conflicts

Wronged Family of Slain Jawan Declines Govt. Cheque

The CRPF jawan Mujahid Khan died fighting militants in Jammu on Monday. He was offered an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh by the NDA government of Bihar, but intriguingly,...

February 14, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Medieval Owaisi Gets a Firing from the Army

Asauddin Owaisi stooped very low, indeed, almost kissed soiled soil, forgot that Muslims are as much the sons of Indian soil, and brazenly and shamelessly communalised the martyrdom of...

January 22, 2018
Kabir Deb
Drama

Slaves Still Rule: A Soliloquy from Kritodash

Kabir translates a famous soliloquy of a slave from the play Kritodash in Bengali. Crossing the barriers of time and place, the slave talks of the human consciousness from...

January 13, 2018
Suveera Sharma
Crime, History & Culture

Lawless Kowloon was a City within a City, a Hub of Vice

The dark past of one of the major hubs of the city was the infamous walled city of Kowloon. It became a city within a city. A haven for...

May 28, 2017
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism

Urdu and the Influence of Punjab

Urdu, which was till now thought to have roots in Delhi, actually took birth in Lahore and adopted Old Punjabi contrary to Braj as its base language. Later, the...

May 24, 2017
Souma Kanti Roy
Potpourri

In the age of Postcards

Souma remembers the romance of letters (snail mail these days) and misses its enigma in the era of advanced technology, exclusively in Different Truths. I was in class three...

February 19, 2017
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Economy, Gender, Human Rights, Politics

Will the Enhanced Budget Allocation make Women Safer in NCR and Elsewhere?

Enhancement of budget allocation for the police for the Nirbhaya Fund, for the safety of women, though welcome, is not enough to ensure their protection. The government might have...

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