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December 19, 2025
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty, Relationship & Lifestyle

Expressing Selfhood through Fashion

Fashion is an expression of one’s inner self or selfhood. Conveying self-expression through fashion comes with articulating self-identity; it shows the world who you are through your fashion choices and allows...

September 17, 2025
Shernaz Wadia
Advocacy, Potpourri

The Ripple Effect of Kindness

Shernaz discusses the act of kindness exclusively on Different Truths. After a small exchange on WhatsApp, a friend asked me “Are you short-tempered?” I denied it. Then more than...

August 23, 2025
Mamta Joshi
Short Story

A Bowlful of Elegy

A poignant and sensitive portrayal of two women, Badi ma and Choti ma, the two sisters-in-law, whose lives are strangely braided. Their glaring differences notwithstanding, they are totally dependent on...

July 31, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Relationship & Lifestyle

Is Money the Root of all Evil?

The idea that money is the be-all and end-all of life has become ingrained into human consciousness. Being in a consumerist and capitalist modern society we learn to woo material riches,...

October 1, 2022
Tapati Sinha
Fiction, Humor, Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

A Slice of Divine Life: Live from Kailash

Here’s Tapati’s fictional Durga-Shiva dialogues, full of banter, repartee, wit, and humour, create a laughter riot, an exclusive Special Feature for Different Truths. “Shiva seems too busy these days!...

June 23, 2018
Reetwika Banerjee
Crime, Cyber Security

Learn to Dodge BIN Attack with your Payment Cards

A cybersecurity expert, Reetwika tells us about a very fashionable cybercrime which is raving the global payment card industry with a snowballing trend of monetary scams, especially where the...

June 13, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

A Life-Enriching Training

Hemashri shares her experience of a training as a bureaucrat that enriched her. She shares her experience, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I was nominated for...

May 17, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, Politics

Keeping India Awake for Height of Trivialisation? It is not about Numbers but Power, says Court

After the ‘Midnight Drama’, BS Yeddyurappa takes oath as Karnataka CM. The top court will take up the case again on Friday. In the meantime, the BJP has been...

May 4, 2018
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Poem

Fighting for Love

An intense poem about the dog-eat-dog world of people, by Anoucheka, for Different Truths. What is it that makes us hate each other? Pray, looking at humans nowadays, One...

April 21, 2018
IPA Service
Economy, Politics

Fiscal 2019 on Chaotic Start with Cash Squeeze: One More Blow at Desperate Poll Moves of BJP

Highly disturbing for the immediate, and potentially damaging for the economy is the sudden outbreak of what is called “cash crunch” in several states, even the State Bank of...

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