hardship Archives - Different Truths

March 19, 2025
Francesco Favetta
Poem

Finding Love in Life’s Wounds

Francesco’s poem explores love’s resilience, suggesting it thrives in life’s hardships, hidden depths, and inner strength, eternally reborn, exclusively for Different Truths. It is in the woundsof lifeit is...

July 10, 2024
Suveera Sharma
People, Place

That Old Lady in the Plaza

One in three elderly in Hong Kong aged 65 and over are living in poverty. They spend the remaining of their lives, looking through trash that we throw, trying...

April 25, 2022
Dr. Sudipta Mishra
Gender, Television

The Iconic Serial Anupama: Idolising Womanhood

Dr. Sudipta revisits the TV serial Anumpama that idolises womanhood. An exclusive for Different Truths. Let’s take a sharp glance at the popular show: Anupama. The serial which is...

April 16, 2020
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Pandemic

Life in the Times of Lockdown

Ruchira Adhikari GhoshRuchira Adhikari Ghosh brings a liberal, wide-ranging outlook shaped by extensive travel across India and abroad. Educated at Holy Child School, New Delhi, Sacred Heart Convent, Ludhiana,...

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...

June 26, 2018
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Poem

Are we not all Privileged and Unprivileged in Some Way?

Ritambhara looks at the emptiness and void in the lives of the rich and pits it against the have-nots, in this verse, exclusively for Different Truths. The homeless on...

April 5, 2018
IPA Service
Business, Economy, Industry, International Relations, Trade

China has Lessons to Learn from US-Japan Trade Tiff: India Could Benefit from Shift in Chinese Policy

To circumvent the trade war, China should increase its overseas investment in low-cost countries and re-route its exports to the USA. India can become a preferred destination for Chinese...

March 23, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

Corbyn is Best Placed to Win Next Elections: British Left Must Maintain Unity to Ensure the Process

Millions of people are invested in the idea of a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour government. That raises a new challenge — how to maintain and strengthen the unity of the...

February 6, 2018
IPA Service
Corruption, Economy, Exploitation, Mass Media

Looking at Elders through Selective Eyes: Retirees from News Organisations in Dire Straits

Retired people from newspaper companies and organisations were never granted proper salaries in their prime time of life. Having craftily ensured low salaries to these essential staff, the management...

November 4, 2017
Arindam Ghosh
People, Place, Poem

Tagore and Allahabad: Indian Press Published all his Books, from 1908-14, including the Nobel Prize-winning Gitanjali – I

Between 1908 and 1914, Indian Press printed and published all Tagore works and made it popular. The books were printed by Indian Press, Allahabad and sold through Indian Publishing...