Desert Flowers
When life seems cruel, in the arid desert, flowers bloom. A new hope and joy. Dr. Amrinder celebrates life, in this verse, for Different Truths. This is the age...
Political Delicacies: Generational Change in Action
Political tidbits from around India, for Different Truths. The 84th plenary session of Congress saw for the first time in the party’s 133-year old history a change in the...
The Wonderland of Traditional Indian Jewellery
Ruchira tells us about some popular ornaments from various parts of India that women still love to adorn and possess, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Since...
Humanism
Here’s a poetic tribute of Sarala to Mother Teresa, and a call to the youth to emulate her, in Different Truths. Learn dear youth What’s humanism from our beloved...
Indian Labourers in Big Distress in Foreign Lands: MEA and State Governments Have to be more Pro-Active
Due to an intervention by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Congress leader from Malda, Mausam Noor, 35 stranded migrant workers from Jharkhand and West Bengal have been rescued...
A Great Film on the Man Who Changed the World: Raoul Peck Gives a New Dimension to the Life of Young Marx
The director, Haiti’s former culture minister Raoul Peck, who made the Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro in 2016, wondered if he would find finance for his film. He...
Unwise to Choose Paper Ballot over EVM: Congress Wants to Turn the Clock Back
The Congress Party’s call for dispensing with EVMs is a retrograde step in a digital age when even 10/12-year-olds are more familiar with smartphones than their parents. The harking...
Xi Makes a Changez Khan Pitch: Peaceful Life on Earth is Under a Threat
President Xi Jinping will be the ‘Changez Khan’ of the 21st Century. The man, like his sprawling country, is a glutton for land, a bear for ‘territory’; and when...
39 Returning in Boxes Dash Hopes of Their Families: Confirmation Made Possible by ISIS Rout of Mosul
That truth is that ISIS was cleared from Mosul only towards the end of 2017, and only after then could a search be carried out by the Iraqi authorities....
The Launch of Dilliwali: Celebrating the Woman of Delhi through an Anthology in English, Hindi, and Urdu Poems
This anthology, Dilliwali, is remarkably distinctive as it contains poems written not just about women but about the women of Delhi. Who is a Dilliwali, what are her thoughts,...