Shail discusses home building options in expensive real estate conditions; the red flag between
India and the US regarding non-vegetarian cow milk, and reiterates the talent that India boasts of, exclusively for Different Truths.

A Dollhouse at your door

And, you thought Amazon had sold
everything to your door
from pencils to mat for floor?
You are in for a shock then.
Foldable houses are now available
for a pittance when compared
to soaring real estate prices.
Living in anything costlier
would be cooking dishes without
any spices.
The house comes replete
with bedrooms, kitchen, toilet
and living room.
It would definitely make your
neighbours fume.
Available for now in the US.
Rush my friend. Don’t miss the bus.
Pre-fabricated houses
are what they are called
for now. Hurry up and secure
your piece of land.
Building your house requires no more
cement or sand.
Just unpack and unfold.
Construction and building seems
to be clean bowled.

Are you milky vegetarians?

Drinking milk was never
a complicated ritual
until it was discovered
that cow milk could be
non vegetarian too!
“Pray, how that may be?”
you might ask.
If cows are fed cattle feed
of bones and animal parts
like fish, pig, dogs and chicken
the vegetarians will surely be
in shock stricken.
Currently, the centre of a debate
between India and the US state,
‘an unnecessary trade barrier’
is what they say
only wanting to wedge into
the Indian dairy market
chocked for now by a religious target.
Vegetarians in India want none of this
affecting their daily sensitive schedule.
The ‘red flag’ between India and US,
their economic dairy market woes
to be fueled.
Still others think going vegan is the best.
The calf drinking the cow’s mik
and none other is the basic test.
Or, so they say.
Until a consensus is reached,
cow milk will be deemed
veg or non- veg.
Which one do you favour?
Vegetarian feed or non-vegetarian
flavour?

College students develop defence start-up

Indian college students
do their country proud
by creating a defence radar drone
in the confines of their dorm hostel
making chests of Indians with pride swell.
It’s two of them actually.
Jayant Khatri and Sourya Choudhury
from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad.
Studies is serious for them,
not a fad.
The unmanned flying bomb dropping drone
is now being used by the army,
respecting talent from this young team’s
efforts, their very own.
Apollyon Dynamics is what it is called.
This defence tech start-up
has everyone enthralled.
What more does a country need
when its young citizens are
marching forward to protect
the nation’s breed.

References:

https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/amazon-is-now-delivering-homes-at-your-
doorstep-for-around-rs-10-lac-article-107445371

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/why-non-veg-milk-from-cows-is-becoming-a-trade-barrier-for-
india-and-us-888145

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/bits-hyderabad-startup-delivers-indigenous-
combat-drones-to-indian-army/article69838701.ece

Shail Raghuvanshi

Shail Raghuvanshi is a poet, freelance journalist, copyeditor, voice actor, and artist with 30 years of experience in various media. She has worked as the Cultural Correspondent for India's first integrated media company, PLUS Channel, and has written course material for Madurai Kamaraj University's Post Graduate Programme in Advertising and Public Relations. She has also been a coach of Communicative English. She has published poems, short stories, and articles in leading magazines and anthologies.

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