illusion - Different Truths

May 13, 2023
Harinder Cheema
Poem

This World is an Illusion

Harinder’s poem is about the ephemeral world and climate change – an exclusive for Different Truths. Here today, gone tomorrow This World is an illusion The Tethys became the Himalayas...

September 13, 2022
Meenu Mehrotra
Relationship & Lifestyle

The Trials and Tribulations of a Teenager

Times have changed. Life is not as simple as it used to be. In this era of information explosion and social network sites, realities are skewed for the teenagers now....

December 23, 2021
Anika Ghei
Fiction, Special Feature

The Pious Infidel

Intolerance and hatred have existed with its opposite in the public spheres. Here’s Anika’s historical short fiction, in the regular column, exclusively in Different Truths. He was Nizam to us....

December 21, 2021
Lovita J. R. Morang
Fiction, Special Feature, Special Needs

God of Everything Falls

July 22, 2021
Madhuri Bhattacharya
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Growing Up in Wilderness: African Stories of Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing was born to British parents, Alfred Taylor and Maud Me Veigh, in 1919. After the First World War, her father migrated to Africa and purchased three thousand...

June 28, 2018
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Relationship & Lifestyle

Three Things that made me an Adept Person While I Began to Love Myself

Being self-compassionate is just about avoiding pleasing others at your own cost or stopping treating yourself too sternly for a trivial mistake you made inadvertently. Ritambhara shares three tips...

June 5, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Time up for Undemocratic Choreography of BJP

The problem with such stage-managed shows is the fostering of an illusion of control and invincibility, which are the hallmarks of the Modi dispensation. These are standard techniques of...

June 1, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Much More than Anti-Incumbency behind BJP Rout: Voters Have Changed the Poll Narrative

The results of the by-elections clearly imply that the people, especially the poor, Dalits and minorities across the country have polarised to protect the secular ethics of the country....

May 29, 2018
IPA Service
Book Review, Defence, Espionage, Terrorism, War & Conflicts

Pak Junta Grounds ISI Durrani to Grind Him: Book Reveals Games Played by Spooks across the Border

Lt. General Asad Durrani, once chief of Pakistan’s notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is in trouble. He danced a tango with ex-RAW head Amarjit Singh Dulat – who is in...

May 23, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

Prayers, Process, and Reforms: Some Things do Not Change for Ordinary People

The state administrative service is rife with arbitrariness and discrimination. Hemashri recounts how her study leave prayer for a higher study to JNU, New Delhi, was not granted, while...

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