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May 23, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

Prayers, Process, and Reforms: Some Things do Not Change for Ordinary People

The state administrative service is rife with arbitrariness and discrimination. Hemashri recounts how her study-leave prayer for higher studies at JNU, New Delhi, was denied, while two other batchmates...

May 19, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

When Indira Gandhi Could Have Eliminated Defections: Case of First Defection in Madhya Pradesh

The first defection took place in 1967. Through defection elected governments of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh were overthrown. After the general elections, Congress came back to power...

March 24, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Book Club, Book Extract

Elixir, a Voyage of the Mind: Bestseller and a Critically Acclaimed Novel

Where does our mind go, when we fall asleep? Can dreams weave a layer of parallel existence? Can there be another reality beyond all that we touch, see or...

February 22, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Trolls in Their Internet Sprawls: Modi Helps Create New Kind of Jobs

The reality is often brushed under the carpet by Modi’s rivals whose numbers will increase manifold as general elections 2019 approach with a deadly certainty. A huge number of...

January 17, 2018
Mamta Joshi
Poem

A Scaffolding of Love

Here’s an intense and powerful women-centric poem by Mamta that celebrates her love despite countless sufferings, for Different Truths. Throbbing with exhaustion and pain Cramped muscles ache for rest...

December 15, 2017
Sarika Sarkar Das
Food, Relationship & Lifestyle

Of Wedding Anniversary and Two Yummy Bengali Style Fish Recipes

Sarika tells us about her 13th wedding anniversary, the loving care of her husband, who makes it grand every year and two fish recipes that her man loves. Read more...

October 29, 2017
Maj Gen Raj Singh Mehta
Defence, Relationship & Lifestyle, Tribute

Lionhearted Raj Ahlawat

Maj Gen Raj gives us a feel of the Army life and pays tribute to his friend, philosopher, and guide, Lionhearted Raj Ahlawat, exclusively in Different Truths. What can...

September 20, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Gender, Interview

Rana Safvi: The Untold Story

The world knows her as a famous historian who came out with her first book at the age of 58, a firm believer in the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb of India...

September 9, 2017
Suveera Sharma
People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

A Nomad between Goodbyes and Hellos

Efficiency is what Hong Kong runs on. It drives the people here. A city that sees a good number of typhoons every year, still gets back on its feet...

July 15, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Contradictory Shuffle of Planets

The tussle between Karma and destiny decided by planetary positions has been explored and exposed in this poem, by Mamta. It’s a powerful social commentary, in Different Truths. Gaining...