Child Labour
A poem about social awareness and a protest against employing a child as a labour, by Sarala, exclusively for Different Truths. Carrying heavy loads on their tender heads going...
Indian Economy on a Slippery Oil Slope: Centre Must Give up Part of Bounty Collected through Duty
It is appalling to see the authorities openly stating that the time had not come to cut excise duty as global crude prices had not reached that high. Embarrassingly,...
More Rhetoric than Action in US-China Trade Negotiations: India Should Lie Low Without Taking Sides
The trade negotiations between the two countries ended last week, with China declaring its honest intent to increase US imports and the world breathed a sigh of relief that...
Artificial Intelligence to Trigger Second Industrial Revolution
Technology optimists do not deny that automation will prove disruptive in the short run. They point out, however, that historically periods of rapid technological change have created more jobs...
Chinese Designs on Arunachal Heighten Worries for India
What has added to India’s anxiety is that the report quotes a Chinese academician at the University of Geosciences in Beijing as saying that Chinese troops had to retreat...
Redesigning Indo-Russian Strategic Friendship: Perceptible Change in Tone and Tenor of Modi
Russia had nursed the feeling that India will speak out its mind on the US sanction against Moscow. The US had imposed the sanctions earlier this year under CAATSA...
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 a higher study to JNU, New Delhi, was not granted, while...
A Remarkable Horizontal Vastness and a Rare Vertical Depth in the Poetry of Basudeb Chakraborti – IV
Basudeb Chakraborti’s poetry has a remarkable horizontal vastness and a rare vertical depth. His poetry concerns itself with all the essential aspects of life and one feels the imprint...
Dalits Uprooted: Houses Burnt Forcibly by SDM Karchana
SDM Karchana Kuldev Singh clandestinely uprooted and broke into the hutments with JCB machines and set fire to the 40-year-old houses of 19 Dalit landless labourers in Kaundhiyara yesterday....
Christians Dressed in Crusade Mail
No names have been taken, neither that of man nor party, in the Archbishop’s letter. But the Church’s David versus Goliath slingshot is aimed at the Modi government. That...