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June 28, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

In Defence of Social Media

Ruchira celebrates the influx of social media sites that have made like enchantingly interesting. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. To see a World in...

June 23, 2018
Sushmita Mukherjee
Criticism

Hi Friend, Hyphen!

Sushmita dwells on the small dash, the hyphen. Other than its grammatical functions, it revealed something unique to this scribe. Read more, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different...

June 9, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Pranab Strikes Big Bang, Congress Hits Black Hole

Pranab Mukherjee did not have to “die first” to go back in time to retell history. He’s 82 and in his memory-cache there is enough of reading of history...

June 5, 2018
IPA Service
Business, Social Sites

Facebook in Trouble it phoned up a Decade Ago: Situation Has Got a Lot Trickier for Zuckerberg

The clean-cut CEO of Facebook, social media where friends serenade friends and get high on ‘likes’, was just getting over the profligacy of Cambridge Analytica when the NYT comes...

May 29, 2018
IPA Service
Book Review, Defence, Espionage, Terrorism, War & Conflicts

Pak Junta Grounds ISI Durrani to Grind Him: Book Reveals Games Played by Spooks across the Border

Lt. General Asad Durrani, once chief of Pakistan’s notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is in trouble. He danced a tango with ex-RAW head Amarjit Singh Dulat – who is in...

May 13, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Animal World, Crime, Gender

Why I Respect the Dogs!

In this reflective and soul-searching outpouring, Tapati takes a hard look at our weak-kneed legal system, where rapists commit their dastardly crimes with impunity. She also talks of an...

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...

April 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

India-Hater Shahid Afridi is Out of Favour in Dubai: Police Chief Wonders why Pakistanis are Troublemakers

The only thing going for Shahid Afridi is the Muslim identity he shares with the Kashmiri. Otherwise, he is lost Pashtun in the Valley like his ‘Pashtun Idol’ Imran...

April 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Irani Circular and a Government Running Scared but I&B Minister Persisting with Filmy Style

The Modi-led NDA government was in a hot-and-sour soup, spicy to the tongue of Modi detractors like Shourie, thanks to Information & Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani, who overnight sought...

March 31, 2018
Suveera Sharma
Book Club, Potpourri

Bring Me a Book

Suveera takes us on a pleasurable journey into the world of books and reading, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Have you ever felt so involved in...

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