Hair Archives - Different Truths

April 25, 2026
Sumita Dutta
Fiction, Short Story

Friends Online

Chennai-based Sumita tells us a story about online friendship, exclusively in Different Truths. September 11 Monday, 09:45 pm Aryan Chelvam hi rams, what’s up man? T. Ramesh hey Aryan!...

July 19, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

Sexism and Literature

Payal re-examines classics and popular comics to explore how sexist their content is, exclusively in Different Truths. Recently, I decided to recycle through all the old books that I...

December 29, 2021
Sumita Dutta
Fiction, Special Feature

Trifle

Here are four micro-fictions – Air, The Peacock Strut, Helmets, and Repartee – presenting four slices of life, Trifle, by Sumita, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths....

September 23, 2018
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Special Feature, Travel & Food

tea, salt, and teranga

Not all salt harvesters are held in equal esteem. As in many economically-challenged zones across the world, outside Dakar, in the shallow basin of Senegal’s Lac Rose, salt workers...

July 16, 2018
IPA Service
History & Culture, Legal Issues

The Unseemly Noise over Taj Mahal: Judges Wade into Unchartered Territory

“Either we will shut down the Taj Mahal or you demolish or restore it”, a two-member bench comprising Justices M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta were reported to have...

July 13, 2018
Shameena Abdurahiman
Beauty, Fashion

How to Choose Contrast Colours to Create Fabulous Clothing!

Fashionista Shameena gives us invaluable tips on how to choose contrast colours that would complement our skin and hair colours. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively for Different...

June 5, 2018
IPA Service
Business, Social Sites

Facebook in Trouble it phoned up a Decade Ago: Situation Has Got a Lot Trickier for Zuckerberg

The clean-cut CEO of Facebook, social media where friends serenade friends and get high on ‘likes’, was just getting over the profligacy of Cambridge Analytica when the NYT comes...

May 25, 2018
IPA Service
Industry, Politics, Security, War & Conflicts, World

German Industry Divided on Links with Iran: Social Democrats, Left Hit by Factional Fights

Only days after Netanyahu’s press conference attack on Iran, Trump tore up the U.S. copy of the Iran nuclear agreement. Only hours after that Israel launched its heaviest missile...

May 19, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Democracy is Dead; Long Live Democracy!

The truth is that democracy is being murdered in this country every day. No party has the moral right, at least none among the mainstream parties, to criticise any...

May 15, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Deve Gowda Becomes the Good Father, but another Baby Goes Out With the Bath Water

Siddaramaiah has lost more than one arm. BS Yeddyurappa lost his cup of joy because there are these things called ‘slip’ and ‘lip’. Amit Shah lost his confidence. Rahul...