Education - Different Truths

August 13, 2021
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Children's Right, Education

Free Smartphones, Data Packs for Children to Access Online Education

For a bunch of children of Kolkata, it was a much-cherished taste of freedom from the digital divide, as they receive free handsets and data cards to access online...

July 23, 2021
Mahua Maharana
Education & Career, Special Feature

An Overview of the Libraries in Ghana

Mahua gives an overview of the libraries and the library system of Ghana. This is in no way an exhaustive study of libraries in Ghana. Libraries across the world...

June 29, 2021
Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein
Education, Health, Pandemic

Sense and Sensibility Regarding Educational Institutions Reopening in Bangladesh

Tabassum argues in favour of the government’s decision to keep educational institutions closed in the light of a new variant, Delta Plus, spreading fast. There are some people who...

May 14, 2021
Sarika Sarkar Das
Cover Story, Education, Pandemic, Parenting, Special Needs

What are the Many Challenges of Online Education in the Post-Pandemic Period!

Sarika tells us about the many challenges of online education, for learners, including special needs children, and the rural-urban divide. An exclusive for Different Truths. It is the first...

May 12, 2021
Dr. Gauranga Mohanta
Aesthetics, Environment, Language, Multiculturalism, People, Place, Special Feature, Spirituality, Tribute

Revisiting the Idea of School Education of Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore wanted to defend the freedom he enjoyed in his family, for all humanity. He remained firmly opposed to colonial education that aimed at material prosperity. He believed...

May 11, 2021
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Criticism, Short Story, Special Feature, Tribute

Short Stories of Tagore: Vignettes from Human Life

Ruchira critiques eight short stories of Tagore, in the Special Issue, exclusively for Different Truths. Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Mini who lived...

May 11, 2021
Swapan Bhowmik
Literature, People, Place, Special Feature, Tribute

An Overview of the Ideas and Visions of Rabindranath Tagore

Rooted in the Indian reality, minus its dogmas, the flight of Rabindranath Tagore’s creative genius made him a global citizen. Swapan delves into the world of his ideas and...

May 11, 2021
Lovita J. R. Morang
People, Place, Special Feature, Tribute

Tagore in Love: Letters from Shillong, Khublei Shibun

It was in the month of May, Lovita was in Shillong with a sole sojourn to be there, where Tagore lived, 99 years ago (first time in 1919)....

May 10, 2021
Prof Anisur Rahman
Gender, Language, Literature, Multiculturalism, Music, People, Place, Poem, Religion, Special Feature, Tribute

Rabindranath Tagore: An Inquiry into Ideas and Ideals

In order to acquire a worldview for himself, Tagore strove to achieve a balance between Humanism and Naturalism, Individualism and Determinism, Hedonism and Asceticism, all of them being...

May 9, 2021
Hayat Saif
Criticism, Multiculturalism, Poem, Special Feature, Translation, Tribute

Gitanjali: Interactions of Bengali Literature with the World

The English translation of Gitanjali, “Song Offerings”, encases only 103, amongst which one poem is a combined translation of two other poems. Fifty-three of the poems are from...

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