Learning is a Habit
Preeyan tells us the value of learning – a process that’s unending, a habit, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Every one of us, at any given...
Undeclared Emergency: Targeting of Lawyers, Dissenters Continuing
If it was censorship in 1975, its self-censorship now. What is the difference between censorship and self-censorship based on fear? If anything, the latter is worse and still cannot...
Jeremy Irons Mesmerises in a Semi-Autobiographical Play
Long Day’s Journey into Night, currently being staged at Los Angeles, is a masterful rendition of Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece about the human condition. The British cast is led by...
A Life-Enriching Training
Hemashri shares her experience of a training as a bureaucrat that enriched her. She shares her experience, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I was nominated for...
Bunch of Blooms: A Critical Analysis
Pankajam, a very prolific poet of high repute, standing in the garden of literature, with joy and pride, with her Bunch of Blooms, her eighth collection of poems tempts...
Time up for Undemocratic Choreography of BJP
The problem with such stage-managed shows is the fostering of an illusion of control and invincibility, which are the hallmarks of the Modi dispensation. These are standard techniques of...
Gossip, Rumour and Test-Tube Sita: Guessing Game over Pranab Da or Mamata Di
There’s no limit to the cycle of birth and rebirth; to rumour and gossip. Mamata Didi’s post-mortem of the BJP in Purulia after leaving to the vultures the carcass...
Child Labour
A poem about social awareness and a protest against employing a child as a labour, by Sarala, exclusively for Different Truths. Carrying heavy loads on their tender heads going...
Artificial Intelligence to Trigger Second Industrial Revolution
Technology optimists do not deny that automation will prove disruptive in the short run. They point out, however, that historically periods of rapid technological change have created more jobs...
Constitutional Crisis Post-Karnataka Election Results: Supreme Court has set Precedence
Much has been written about the significance of the Karnataka developments for the wider Indian politics, and whether it signifies the coming together of the major opposition parties to...