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July 19, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

Sexism and Literature

Payal re-examines classics and popular comics to explore how sexist their content is, exclusively in Different Truths. Recently, I decided to recycle through all the old books that I...

March 19, 2024
Suveera Sharma
Lifestyle, Parenting, People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

Put Life into Your Years

A couple of days back, we went for a picnic, to a picturesque country park. One of many in Hong Kong. We set base on top of a hill,...

February 26, 2024
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, People, Place

Calcutta Cameo: Of Fetidness and Joy!

Humourist Soumya presents two snapshots of Calcutta as he saw it, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. During a recent visit to my hometown – the city...

October 6, 2023
Sushmita Gupta
Poem

Just Friends

A poignant and intense poem about yearning and wishes. A poem with strong submerged love, by Sushmita, in Different Truths. That winter night,You should have stayed on,With me through,Instead...

September 17, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Migration & Diaspora, Relationship & Lifestyle, Travel & Food

For the Ashes of my Father and the Temples of my Gods*

Dr. Roopali tells us about voyages to distant lands. Her father’s family left Dhaka during his childhood. It stayed with him. A highly decorated Air Force officer, her Rakhi...

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...

May 28, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Cover Story

174 Children Go Missing in India Every Day, Half of Them Remain Untraced

The data released by MHA suggests that more than half of all missing children in the country are concentrated in just five states, namely West Bengal, Delhi UT, Madhya...

May 23, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations

Redesigning Indo-Russian Strategic Friendship: Perceptible Change in Tone and Tenor of Modi

Russia had nursed the feeling that India will speak out its mind on the US sanction against Moscow. The US had imposed the sanctions earlier this year under CAATSA...

May 11, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Modi Makes Karnataka Poll Acid Test for 2019: Desperate Campaign to Make the State Congress-Mukt

If the Modi vituperative magic does not work as much as hoped for in Karnataka, it would mean that BJP, with its current majoritarian hold over the country and...

May 2, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Mass Media

On Jey Day, Jigna Walks Free: Mumbai Scribes Take Reporting to the Underworld

The day came for journalist Jey Dey to get justice. Mafia don and Dawood eyesore Chhota ‘Chindi’ Rajan got convicted along with nine others, while another journalist, alleged femme...

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