Trump Dumps Global Trading Rules for Political Gains
The rest of the world may rail against Trump for triggering off a trade war by his action to slap 25 percent tax on steel imports and 10 percent...
Padma Shri Sardar Gurcharan Singh: Father of Studio Pottery in India
Sumita profiles Ceramicist Sardar Gurcharan Singh, a Padma Shri recipient, who pioneered the Delhi Blue Art Pottery, which later became the Delhi Blue Pottery Trust. Read more about the...
Novelist Manju Kapur Exposes the Reality of Generation Gap after 1947
Basudeb features Manju Kapur, a post-1947 novelist, an important feminist writer. He critiques her novels, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. One of the most important features of...
A Retrospective of Concern for Human Values: Letters to Namdeo Dhasal by Chandramohan S
Chandramohan’s poems portray subaltern life with exactitude and his concern for human values is quite evident in almost all poems in this collection. Poem after poem one can sense...
Nayantara Sahgal: A Novelist of the Indian Corridors of Political Power
Basudeb profiles Nayantara Sahgal, the second daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (sister of Jawaharlal Nehru). An important woman novelist of the 20th century, she penned many political novels too,...
Do the Muslims of Norway Pose Cultural Threat to Norwegian Identity?
Norway is a country which claims to protect and promote human rights at home and abroad. However, within the deeper layers of Norwegian society, to some extent, hidden racism...
Pride of New Delhi: Quirky, Classy Khan Market
Khan Market, in New Delhi, was started, in 1951, by Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan, brother of freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ġaffar Khan (also known as Frontier Gandhi). Today, it ranks as...
How do Lonesome Teenagers Battle the World of Wolves and Sheep?
Teenage is the twilight of our lives. It’s the turning point that make or mar us. Often teenagers have to leave their home and hearths, their security bubble and comfort...