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September 25, 2018
Swapna Behera
Short Story, Special Feature

A Gold Watch of the Bishop, a Stick of the Gardener and the Train

A Bishop had blamed the son of the gardener for stealing his gold wristwatch. The gardener too had beaten his son blue-black. Was the boy a thief? A story...

September 24, 2018
Johanna Climenko
Cover Story, History & Culture, Multiculturalism, People, Special Feature

Travelling the World in NYC: Conversations with Cab Drivers and Other Multi-Cultural Excursions

The interplay of different cultures – read multiculturalism – opens the horizons to a person, who is compassionate and deeply observant. As a Dance/Movement Therapist, nonverbal communication is the...

September 24, 2018
Dr. Nachiketa Bandyopadhyay
Criticism, Gender, History & Culture, Human Rights, Special Feature

Black Women Celebrate Africanness: Identity, Rights, Culture and Gender Assertion

The cultural values of the ancient Africanness handed over to their children by Black mothers, even when values disappeared in history and ideas turned moribund through generations of slavery...

September 24, 2018
Dr. Ranjana Sharan Sinha
Gender, Human Rights, Profile, Special Feature

Sojourner Truth, First Feminist to Assert Black Identity: Intersectionality and Truth

What Sojourner Truth may have been most famous for, not unlike the firebrand anarchist Emma Goldman, was her public speaking. Illiterate throughout her life, she nevertheless had a remarkable...

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...

September 22, 2018
Dr. Neela Bhattacharya Saxena
Cinema, Cover Story, Gender, History & Culture, Special Feature, Spirituality

Grace of Black Panther: Spirit, Self and the Shaman in the Mother Continent

It is a source of boundless energy and power that an animal totem like the panther represents. Shamans of the world intuit that secret. Let us journey into the...

September 22, 2018
Swati Kumar
History & Culture, Religion, Special Feature

Togo: The Largest Voodoo Market in the World

Togo’s capital city of Lomé is the birthplace of the largest Voodoo market in the world – a kind of super supply store for fetishes, charms and anything else...

September 22, 2018
Jared Akama Onyari
Crime, Environment, Health, Special Feature

Dandora Dumpsite is a Bedroom for the Urban Poor in Nairobi

Dandora is the biggest dumpsite in Nairobi, an estate littered with dirt and overflowing sewers pouring into the drainage system. For most though, it is the high level of...

August 24, 2018
Nalini Priyadarshni
Poem, Special Feature

Why Write Poetry

An intense, multi-layered poem, by Nalini, that probes into the function of poetry, exclusively for Different Truths. As if you haven’t asked yourself umpteenth time already they keep asking...

August 15, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Advocacy, Gender, Politics, Special Feature

Freedom for Independence Day

A lot more barriers need to be broken and freedom needs to be realised in an imperfect ‘social structure’ that exists in India and abroad. You still need to...

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