Wanting - Different Truths

April 17, 2024
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

She

An evocative poem by Sarala that celebrates the innocence of a girl-child within an old woman, in Different Truths. Behind her silvery threads Creaking bones Wrinkled face Lifeless eyes Still,...

February 25, 2022
Reena Prasad
Poem

The Wingspan Of Sorrow

A poignant poem by Reena. It’s intense and sensuous. If I stoopit is to drink deep of youmy doppelgänger, black and greyI wear your shades better than any otherwanting...

September 23, 2018
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Special Feature, Travel & Food

tea, salt, and teranga

Not all salt harvesters are held in equal esteem. As in many economically-challenged zones across the world, outside Dakar, in the shallow basin of Senegal’s Lac Rose, salt workers...

June 30, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

2019 Election Launch Pad of BJP is Out

Arun Shourie, like one BJP spokesperson says, is cursed with “too many grey cells for his own good” – he loses himself in the labyrinth. What to make of...

June 19, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Nemesis

Fears and karmas often catch up with us. Soumya shares a real-life incident, when rivals in hockey field, met as friends, years later. How were the worst fears of...

April 24, 2018
Different Truths Poets
Poem

An eAnthology of Poems on Autism

Autism: An Advocacy Initiative is a campaign programme of this webzine. We present an eAnthology of Poems, wherein 42 poets, with as many poems, spread across 19 nations [India...

April 16, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

If Elections are Held Today, BJP Seen Losing

Anger against the Modi government is at its peak right now, not the least because of the Kathua and Unnao missteps, and the Dalit and farmer unrest sweeping the...

April 1, 2018
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Economy, Politics

Democracy in Danger: FRCA Amended Retrospectively; Has India that is Bharat Already Lost the Plot

The amended Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FRCA) contains the seeds that can sow the beginnings of a take-over by any foreign power sooner than later but also smacks of...

January 22, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Business, Ecology

Will Sops in the Forthcoming Budget Undo the Ills of Two Mammoth Steps, Demonetisation and GST?

A populist budget with more sops is expected. The Modi government would justify the reasons for the two mammoth steps, demonetisation and GST, aimed at cleaning the economy. These...

January 15, 2018
Mira Pawar
Education & Career, Potpourri

The Class of 92 of Hyderabad Public School Celebrated Silver Jubilee Reunion

Established in 1923 as Jagirdars College by the Seventh Nizam of Hyderabad, Sir Osman Ali Khan, the school was meant exclusively for the aristocrats and elites. Sometime in the...

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