Understand - Different Truths

November 30, 2016
Subhajit Sanyal
Sports

What Plagues Football: Lack of New Talent, Dirty Politics or Loss of Audience?

Football is a game of the young. It needs strength, stamina, skill, nerve and a never-say- die attitude. Subhajit talks to a cross-section of teenagers and youngsters to understand what they...

November 30, 2016
Muddasir Ramzan
Poem

Vegetated Soul

Here’s an inward looking poem by Muddasir. The person we often seek is within us, says the young poet, in Different Truths. He, wearingly, unlocks a door to a room,...

November 26, 2016
Anita Parikh
Business, Economy, Politics

An Open Letter to the Commoners on Demonetisation

The opposition parties have called for a Bharat Bandh on Monday (Nov 28). Demonetisation affects each and every one in the country. Why is being pro or against demonetisation (carried out...

November 24, 2016
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from the Srimad Bhagavatam: The Beginning – I

Nilanjana retells the stories from the Srimad Bhagavatam1 , bringing alive the essential Indian wisdom of the yore. In the first part of the serialising the Hindu Holy Book, she recapitulates...

November 24, 2016
Kavita Panyam
Relationship & Lifestyle

Why is Online Romance Trending on Cyber Space?

The anonymity of the cyber space make us throw caution to the wind. It often bares the passions that one keeps in check in real lives. There have been...

November 23, 2016
Subhajit Sanyal
Business, Economy, Politics

What the Youth feels about Demonetisation?

Demonetisation has affected one and all. Everyone, from 15 to 50, are busy debating the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s move to ban old currency notes of 500 and 1000 denominations. New...

November 21, 2016
Shail Raghuvanshi
People

Life is no Magic Carpet for Salman in a Faraway Land!

Twenty-eight-year-old Salman is from Bhadohi, in East Uttar Pradesh. He was just 8-year-old, when he came to Chennai with his father. He and his six brothers are all in...

November 20, 2016
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Crime, Short Story

Innocence and Providence

It was still seven in the morning. Kylie was walking back home after having worked the night away. She felt sore, her whole body ached. All she wanted right...

November 15, 2016
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Crime, Economy, Education & Career, Politics

Demonetisation: Commoners Face Unending Troubles but Where are the Deep Pockets!

Randomness seems to be inbuilt in our system. While the honest, pious middleclass, deposited huge amounts of money, collectively, standing in unending queues, those with loads of money were nowhere to...

November 8, 2016
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, Politics

Flames of Truth

People who have been wronged, rendered homeless and voiceless are left with little choice but to set themselves afire, alive. It’s most shocking, terribly grotesque. Till date there are 153 reported...

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