Women and the Art of Saying No
Women do not know how to say, ‘No’. They get into trouble for hesitating and not speaking their minds, clearly. Here’s a bold and gutsy reaction to this problem...
Joint Campaign by VRCO and CRY to Address Child Health and Malnutrition
Giving Children of Odisha a Healthy Start’, a six month-long initiative organised by VCRO and CRY, will reach out to children and mothers of 158 villages of five tribal...
Three Incidents, One Cause: Deaths to Liberate Tibet
Eswar tells us about the supreme sacrifice of Tibetan people to liberate their land. For the first time in the history of Mankind, a Nobel Prize winner died in...
Sex and the Indian Woman: More than Lipstick under our Burqas
Gender roles are defined and given in a patriarchal society. The ‘good’ versus the ‘bad’ girl/woman mindset in the backdrop of the film Lipstick under my Burqa and marital...
What Would Happen if Suddenly, Magically, Men Menstruate and Women Could Not?
Male-female role reversals have intrigued most of us. In a 1978 satire for Ms. Magazine, feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem answered the question that so many women have asked: “What would happen,...
Students Debate Global Child Rights Issues at Model United Nations
CRY organised a two-day debating session called Model United Nations in Kolkata. A report in Different Truths. The rain-soaked city of Kolkata witnessed a bunch of young students step...
Tracing the Roots of Change: Feminism in India and the 50s and 60s Born Women
Feminism being multicultural and diasporic, the needs of women across nations are grossly dissimilar, conditioned by familial, societal, racial, marital, economic, cultural and individual subjectivity. Samrudhi analyses feminism, tracing...
Bad to the Bone: How to Effectively Manage Osteoporosis – II
In the second part on Osteoporosis, Rita tells us the precautions, care and effective management of the disease, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Treatment Although you...
…And the World Heard the Sisak of the Actors Jitin and Dhruv
Our columnist Mahima brings you the candid and bold interview of the two actors Jitin Gulati and Dhruv Singhal, as the second and final part of the two-part interviews...
The Housewife in the Dustbin
Payal traces the etymology of the housewife pointing out that feminists find it derogatory. She advocates for ungendered terminology to chuck the word, housewife, in the dustbin. Here’s her...