Lonely in a Crowd
Loneliness has become an epidemic in Hong Kong. A recent study of working persons found that about a quarter of people in Hong Kong showed some form of anxiety....
The Right to Differ is a Right by Birth!
Raising questions is not to be seen as a division between the conformists and the non-conformists. The conformists abide by the rules and norms because those rules and norms...
From Practice to Perfect: Sex with Minor Wife Criminalised by the SC
In a landmark judgement, the Apex Court ruled out the exception u/s 375(2) of the IPC as being unconstitutional, stating that if any husband engages in sexual intercourse with...
Old Habits Die Hard
Thinkers had started eulogising light and darkness and various other elements of nature, a leading factor towards the concept of gods; this thought created stories imagining evils being killed...
Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Doubt of Brahma – XLVI
Nilanjana recounts the take of Krishna Leela from the Bhagavat and tells us about a game that Brahma played, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Not only...
That Divine Light
Here’s a poem, by Arun, on Diwali. The poet asks us to light the lamp of divinity, within us, in Different Truths. Light not just these mortal lamps, Ceasing...
Landlords and the Unmarried Women in Kolkata
Bindita shares her woes of being discriminated against and being asked personal questions by landlords in the City of Joy, Kolkata. Read more exclusively in Different Truths. I hear...
Egyptian Mummies had Braces: It is Relevant Even now – I
Our Fashionista Shameena tells us about the history, importance and the type of dental braces, in the first part of her four-part research article. She traces the antiquity of...
Buy Leisure Time with Technology
Bangalore-based Farheen tells us how technology takes away all the drudgery of household works, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Remember the times you have cringed thinking...
Divorced Women should not Lose Their Self-esteem
Whether it’s the fault of women or not, they are the ones who are almost always blamed for divorce in the patriarchal society. Mahima, with the help of noted psychiatrists,...