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February 6, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

When Names Determine the Sex!

Humourist Soumya tells us the gender confusion that names create, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. In the days before gender identity became infra dig and when...

February 4, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Politics

Chauri Chaura Anniversary; Release Bhim Army Chief, Chandrashekhar

The 95th anniversary of Chauri Chaura incident, February 4, 1922, shall be observed tomorrow by CPI(ML) New Democracy at Ghoorpur, on Sunday, with a huge public meeting by paying...

February 2, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Congress Demands Probe into the Death of Judge Loya

The Congress wants a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to independently probe into Judge MN Joya’s death. It wants no involvement of the CBI and NIA. Here’s a report, for...

January 30, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

A Nude Interlude!

Soumya, our humourist, recounts a real-life story, an incident from the life of his maternal great-grandfather, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. This is a story of...

January 23, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

It Does Not Cost extra to be Polite!

Most senior officers in the government service are full of themselves. They do not have the courtesy to offer seats to juniors, anguishes Hemashri, in the weekly column, exclusively...

January 21, 2018
Vedatrayee Dutta
Legal Issues, Opinion

Crisis in Democracy: Is it a Protest or a Mutiny by the Four Judges to Rebel against the CJI?

Legal stalwarts and eminent personalities like former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee and former Attorney-General of India Soli Sorabjee have expressed great condemnation towards the step taken by the...

October 25, 2017
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Dissent, Opinion

The Right to Differ is a Right by Birth!

Raising questions is not to be seen as a division between the conformists and the non-conformists. The conformists abide by the rules and norms because those rules and norms...

October 23, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Gender, Law & Order

From Practice to Perfect: Sex with Minor Wife Criminalised by the SC

In a landmark judgement, the Apex Court ruled out the exception u/s 375(2) of the IPC as being unconstitutional, stating that if any husband engages in sexual intercourse with...

October 9, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Legal Issues

No Amicable Settlement for Heinous Crimes: SC Brings Relief

On 4th of October, 2017, the Supreme Court, in a landmark judgement, brought in a sign of relief by ruling that criminal proceedings in grave offences like murder, rape,...

July 1, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Some Eclipsed Women Novelists after Indian Independence

Basudeb talks about lesser known women novelists in post-Independent India. He tells us about Shakuntala Shrinagesh, Santa Rama Rau, Vimala Raina, and Muriel Washi, in the weekly column, exclusively...

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