Apologising is an Art
One does not lose respect in the eyes of another when one apologises. An important thing to keep in mind is to maintain the tone of the voice,...
Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Rishabhah – XVI
Rishabhah avatar of Narayana was a live demonstration as to how riches, fame, power and everything that human beings pine for cannot overrule the detachment of one who is centered....
Hundreds of Rural Women Rally for Equality and Women Rights, near Allahabad
Rural women, under the banner of PMS, raised slogans and held meetings, demanding equality and women rights, at Ghoorpur market, on the outskirts of Allahabad, on the occasion of...
Seventh Phase: Who will win the Religion and Caste Ridden Assembly Polls in UP?
The seventh and last phase of the polls comes to an end this evening at 5PM, with almost 14 crore electors voting for the 17th UP Assembly. While psephologist...
Gurmehar Kaur: Shaping Heroism in Women by Women
Gurmehar’s push for peace has not gone unnoticed. She has quite a following in Pakistan and she hopes to visit the neighbouring country sometime. This may be criticised like many positive...
Tehmina Durrani: A Champion of Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan
Tehmina Durrani arrests worldwide attention immediately after the publication of her first novel Blasphemy. Her second novel My Feudal Lord exposes the miserable position of a woman pitted against the patriarchal background...
Women in Contemporary Democracy: Is Politics Gender Neutral?
Is the society really democratic for women? Have women been excluded from formal politics? It raises a number of specific questions about how to reform democratic institutions since these...
The New Women Poets
Women theorists agree that the literature of women depends on biological, social, psychological facts that govern her existence. In fact, if one is asked to name a single most characteristic feature...
Girl-child in Labour and Learning: A Case Study in North-24 Parganas
Twenty five girls of age group 7 to 13 years from ten National Child Labour Project schools of North-24- pgs were studied. It was found that 72% girls are from...
Women Hold up Half the Sky[i]: A Special Issue on IWD 2017, in Different Truths
Different Truths (DT) has been publishing special issues and has also brought out seven Anthologies of Poems on several topics in the past. Here’s the eighth Anthology of Poems,...