2016 - Different Truths

December 27, 2016
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Shalabh and Dhanur Asanas: Bend your Back for Agility

Shalabh Asana and Dhanur Asana, with its variations, are very good for basic backbends. It helps in the agility. The first pose aids digestion and relieves gastric troubles and...

December 27, 2016
Shail Raghuvanshi
People

Bamboo Weaving, a Dying Craft, Makes Life Difficult for Gopi

Fifty-two-year- old Gopi had been working on a Chennai sidewalk for the past 30 years. Maybe, the tree that was a part of his handmade work hanging on one...

December 25, 2016
Different Truths
Announcement

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to the large DT family, our readers, well-wishers, writers, and poets, across 160 nations, where DT is read. Due to Christmas Holiday, there will be no issue of the...

December 25, 2016
Archana Sharma
History & Culture, Religion, Travel & Food

Durham Cathedral, England: Deep-seated in Times, History and Music

The ancient character of the city, Durham, and the archaic architecture is fascinating. The Durham Castle known to be a Norman Castle, deriving its name from Norman’s, the raiders and pirates...

December 25, 2016
Amit Singh
Cover Story, History & Culture

The Cultural Hegemony of Orientalism and India

India imagined as essentially irrational, others have described how darker aspects of Indian religious practice…reported cases of human sacrifices changed over time and came to be represented as primitive and barbaric,...

December 25, 2016
Shalini Samuel
Poem

People Pleaser

This poem operates at several levels. It’s about a person and India’s future. Shalini asks us to treat him Gently, with loving care. This poem, in Different Truths, transcends...

December 24, 2016
Rachna Thakurdas
Events, Humor, Literary Festival

Bangalore Literature Festival 2016: A Delicious December Treat!

Well-known humourist-author, Rachna, gives us an insider’s view into the recently concluded two-day Bangalore Literary Festival (BLF) 2016. Her first session was a stand-up inspired by her new release, ‘Band, Bajaa,...

December 24, 2016
Shruti Nagvanshi
Advocacy, Subaltern & Dalits

Speech of Lenin at the Recent Rev. M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award-2016

Lenin Raghuvanshi’s passionate acceptance speech at the recent Rev. M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award-2016 ceremony, once again shows the deep commitment and dedication of his life’s avowed mission. A firebrand...

December 23, 2016
Nikita Goel
Television

Has the Indian TV Degenerated from Career-Oriented and Ambitious to Submissive and Saree-clad Women?

It is sad to see Indian television become synonymous with the saas-bahu saga. Back in the 90’s, our television seemed to be far more advanced than today. It had very...

December 23, 2016
Anita Parikh
Cinema

Collateral Beauty: Ineffectual Canvas – the Demons of Love, Time & Death

Love, Time and Death, are a commonality that all of mankind share no matter the differences of their living worlds. But most of us go through life without realising the thread...

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