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March 20, 2019
Dr. Sudhansu Dash
Literature, Poem

Autobiography of a Joker

Dr. Sudhansu DashDr Sudhansu Dash has bagged the International Elite Writer’s award in English poetry (2014). His anthologies, ‘The Stories of the Insider’, ‘A flying Without Wings’, ’Painting the...

January 31, 2019
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh

Is Reading a Dying Art?

Ruchira agonises about the decline of reading habit and shares the joy of reading. A Different Truths exclusive. Ever since the ancient Egyptians had begun inscribing all available knowledge...

May 25, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Neither Khaki-Knicker nor Coloured Boxers Fit: Question Mark Over Fitness of Government Itself

Rathore’s challenge was ill-timed. He should have also known that the information and broadcasting portfolio he recently took independent charge of is jinxed. I&B ministers invariably land in trouble....

May 19, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Yeddy Bids a Sweet Adieu: Numbers Just Did Not Work Out for BJP

Third-time unlucky, Yeddy realised he couldn’t cobble the magic figure of 111/112 required to stay in power. But that number was just not possible after the Supreme Court set...

May 12, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

PPP, PTI Adopt Tactical Truce to Remember Black Day: Pak Right Wing Parties Try to Exploit Rift

On this day during the regime of Pervez Musharraf, nearly 50 people were killed, with hundreds injured due to a sanguinary riot between the political activists of Musharraf-backed Muttahida...

April 26, 2018
Dr. Tzemin Ition Tsai
Criticism, Special Feature, Special Needs

The Intersection between the World Famous Books and the Picture Books

Reading a picture book is the interests and pastimes of many modern people. In the picture book world, the pictures are used as its compositions and colours, to show...

April 15, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Economy, History & Culture

Financial Frauds Continue Since Ages…

Financial frauds are perhaps as old as human civilisation. Tapati traces the antiquity of the swindle, as recorded in various ancient civilisations. Kautilya lists forty kinds of misappropriation of...

March 21, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, Terrorism

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....

March 1, 2018
Kabir Deb
Poem

Queer Pride

A poem about the trials and tribulations of the LGBTQ community, by Kabir, for Different Truths. We know what fails to suit us Yet we believe that it is...

February 26, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Law & Order, Politics

Lawless Bounty Killers of Yogi: 1,241 Encounters in 11 Months and Counting

Yogi’s cops are making a killing! They shoot before they ask. They don’t take prisoners. Encounters, they are ‘final’. No room for redressal. Before or after. They are a...