Commission Archives - Different Truths

June 10, 2026
Shirin Shabana Khan
Crime, Gender, Human Rights

Reality and Intervention of Witch Hunting: A Crime against Human Dignity

The modus operandi is to disgrace and ostracise the victim. Shirin Shabana highlights the witch hunting cases in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere, suggesting the way out, in the weekly column, exclusively...

June 5, 2026
Shail Raghuvanshi
People

Life is no Magic Carpet for Salman in a Faraway Land!

Twenty-eight-year-old Salman is from Bhadohi, in East Uttar Pradesh. He was just 8 years old when he came to Chennai with his father. He misses home. Life is no...

May 9, 2026
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

Waiting for Network…

This week’s fantasy fiction by Tapan is an interesting sci-fi, with engrossing twists and turns, exclusively on Different Truths. “Will you call the verses I write my off-springs?” In...

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...

April 9, 2024
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy

Rights of the Elderly: Government Policies and Schemes for Older Persons

Rita takes a look into the rights of the elderly and educates us about various government policies and schemes for the elders, in the weekly, exclusively for Different Truths....

February 28, 2023
Sehar Siddiqi
Education & Career, Gender, Special Feature

Question Marks that Still Haunt the Girl-child Education in India

Many girls are enrolled in schools but they never reach the classroom. Sehar details the reasons for low percentage of the girl-child education, which stops them from empowerment, for Different Truths....

December 21, 2021
Lovita J. R. Morang
Fiction, Special Feature, Special Needs

God of Everything Falls

Lovita J. R. MorangLovita J R Morang is a Karmaveer Chakra Awardee, iCongo, United Nations. Awarded Filmmaker, artiste, writer, and a poet. Twenty-six anthologies of short stories and poems,...

December 14, 2019
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand
Poem

Ring Out Wild Bells!

Dr. Jernail Singh AnandDr Jernail Singh Anand is an Honorary Member of the Association of Serbian Writers. He is also an honorary Professor Emeritus in Indian Literature with the...

August 18, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Election Commission should not Allow Simultaneous Polls

The controversy over holding Lok Sabha and assembly elections simultaneously as was the practice in fifties was revived following the BJP President Amit Shah’s letter to the Law Commission...

July 30, 2018
IPA Service
Gender, Religion

Time the Church Took the Confession Test

A woman confessed to pre-marital sex with a priest to another priest. That libido in robes told the secret to two other ‘brothers’. And all three had a time...