Dare or Truth about Spot the Pataka!
Minesh reminisces about Diwali and is transported back to it. He opined during any Diwali make sure no one dares to spot you or stare at you in public and call...
Flames of Truth
People who have been wronged, rendered homeless and voiceless are left with little choice but to set themselves afire, alive. It’s most shocking, terribly grotesque. Till date there are 153 reported...
Akashganga: Birth Pangs and Anxieties of Adolescence – V
Free Fall Training was temporarily a victim of “Stop-Go- Stop” hiccups. In order to counter the doubts on its efficacy, a re-examination and review of the free fall techniques learnt,...
No Girls are Safe in the Badlands of India!
Bhaskar talks of the regularity of girls’ assaults, repetitively, in our society that shows that something is terribly wrong in the upbringing of the boys, be it inside their houses,...
Yoga: Bind Body, Mind and Soul
Our Yoga expert, Navodita, tells us about three asanas. The first of these, Upavishtakona Asana, stretches the hamstrings and helps the blood to circulate properly in the pelvic region...
Pride of New Delhi: Quirky, Classy Khan Market
Khan Market, in New Delhi, was started, in 1951, by Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan, brother of freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ġaffar Khan (also known as Frontier Gandhi). Today, it ranks as...
Life on Pavements: Memory and Instinct helps Mahalingam understand Books
Very few people are able to give back to society what they never got from it. Mahalingam, as this 68-year- old second-hand bookseller, is known, studied only till class three....
A Multicultural Approach to Triple Talaq
The debate on triple talaq issue is directly related with the religious freedom the Constitution of India grants to everyone. However, in certain cases practicing absolute religious freedom could affect human...
…And One Day-I
The protagonist, Nandini, was orphaned at the age of five, when she lost both her parents in an accident in the Western Ghats, in India. She was being brought up...
Teller of Tales
Here’s a poignant verse by Sudeshna about a wondrous storyteller, for Different Truths. Every day she would tell A beautiful picture story Woven with gossamer thread Shimmering in golden...