Books - Different Truths

December 2, 2025
Debjani Guha
Cover Story, Education & Career, Gender, Human Rights

Education, Employment, and Empowerment of Women in India: From 1986 Onwards

Deblina and Debjani’s research shows that women are in better position than before, which was unimaginable even two or three decades back. They talk about the various initiatives taken by...

August 19, 2025
Kabir Deb
Poem

The World Today…

Kabir agonises about the meaninglessness of contemporary existence, giving us a slice of the urban life, in this verse, in Different Truths. More kisses, fewer conversationsOne truth is yet...

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...

May 14, 2025
Abhignya Sajja
Criticism, Opinion

Unlock Your Love for Reading: Discover Life-Altering Books

Abhignya champions reading hefty books like Melville’s Moby Dick, arguing their depth offers profound self-knowledge despite modern distractions, exclusively for Different Truths. It is not uncommon to be turned...

July 9, 2024
Abhilasha Trivedi
Animal World, People, Potpourri

Fluffy Recruits: Petting Dogs at Mumbai Airport, a sure Stress Buster!

Petting a dog for even a few minutes calm us down, said Aakash Lonkar from Animal Angels Foundation, that runs the airport programme and who was with the dogs...

June 10, 2024
Payal Talreja
Gender

Boys will (Not) be Boys: Towards a more Human Society

We talk all the time about what we would teach our daughters, but we equally need to engage in reorienting that which is taught to our sons, not just...

April 8, 2024
Harsh Vardhan 'Samrat'
Human Rights, Poem

Wish of a Child

A poem on child labour by Harsh, in Different Truths. This socially responsive poem effectively displays sordid plight of a child working in the mines. It represents the feelings...

March 12, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Get Around the Molehills of Life

We often imagine situations far worse than they are. In short, we create a mountain out of molehills. Shernaz tells us how to overcome this problem, exclusively in Different...

May 12, 2023
Dr Azam Gill
Books, Profile

Train to Pakistan: Khushwant’s Masterstroke of Punjabi Rural Tragedy – II

Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan tells the story of Jagga, a village dacoit who upholds his code and protects his village during the Partition of India, deliberates Azam in the second...

April 11, 2023
Tapati Sinha
Folk Stories, History & Culture

Fables are Never Too Old

The continuity of the oral tradition attested by The Fox and the Crow story found on the pottery of Mohenjo-Daro and Lothal archaeological sites of a civilisation six thousand...

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