Bond Archives - Different Truths

January 17, 2024
Tapati Sinha
History & Culture, Religion

Makar Sankranti: A Pan-Indian Solar Festival Celebrating Bounty

Makar Sankranti is an important pan-Indian solar festival, known by different names. It is known as Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Pedda Panduga in Andhra Pradesh, Bihu in Assam, Magha...

March 27, 2023
Aishwarya Damodar
Poem

Worlds Apart…

There are the tussle and turmoil between the mundane and the noble worlds, in Aishwarya’s verse, in Different Truths. En route this journey of life... through the concrete jungle,...

July 4, 2018
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Potpourri

Have a Heart

‘Have a heart.’ People say figuratively to the heartless but what of the mite who literally did not have a heart to speak of, or rather one too small to...

March 23, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Data Mining for Poll Started in India: Facebook can Influence, but to Limited Extent

It is possible to use Facebook data to influence Indian elections because India doesn’t have a data protection law. Therefore, anything that Cambridge Analytica does in India will be...

February 26, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Law & Order, Politics

Lawless Bounty Killers of Yogi: 1,241 Encounters in 11 Months and Counting

Yogi’s cops are making a killing! They shoot before they ask. They don’t take prisoners. Encounters, they are ‘final’. No room for redressal. Before or after. They are a...

February 12, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Capital Gains Tax May Cool Down the Overheated Market: Government Concerned Over Unsustainable Stock Boom

Taxes are rarely welcomed by those who are subjected to pay. Investments in equity have long enjoyed dividend tax exemption. That policy was sensible and benefited millions of long-term...

February 9, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

RBI Dampens Budget Hopes with Rising Inflation: Fiscal MSP and Global Risks Rule out Rate Cuts

Indian economy is headed for another tough fiscal year (2018-19) both from a likely budget-fuelled inflationary surge within and from global rate rises across booming economies. Here’s a report...

February 5, 2018
Devesh Chandra Mishra
Poem

I am Thinking

Devesh imagines a beautiful world and wishes it is true, in the verse, for Different Truths. I’m thinking So I’m a thinker I ‘m writing So I’m a writer...

January 21, 2018
Shail Raghuvanshi
Health, International Relations, Politics, Potpourri, Science & Technology

Political Kite Flying, App Looking at the Big Picture, Child-Friendly Police Station, Mice Have a Field Day

Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu, two PMs, bond over kite-flying at Sabarmati Ashram and they paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi. The App WeCroak is born of Bhutanese folklore saying that to be...

January 19, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Potpourri, Religion

Ruchira anguishes that the Indian society is becoming increasingly intolerant and parochial. The walls of religious divisions are sharper now. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different...

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