India has over Eighty Ways of Draping a Sari
There are more than 80 recorded ways to wear a sari. The most common style is for the sari to be wrapped around the waist, with the loose end...
Not Just Stents, Price of all Drugs Must be Capped, Demands Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare
The Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare (ADEH) has submitted in its letters to the Prime Minister, Health Minister and the Minister for Petroleum, Chemicals & Fertilisers as well...
The Future is Smiling in Hong Kong, the Jewel of Asia
Suveera began penning the Hong Kong Diary, a weekly column, in 2017. She glances back at the close of the year and tells us what life has been in the Far...
Digitisation: Is it a Boon or Bane?
Money was a simple sack of grains in olden times when barter was used. As the economies grew larger and more complex, the need arose for something, which could...
Three Things in Life you should Value more than Money
Ritambhara reminds us that money is a means, not an end in itself. Here she tells us three reasons why money is not everything, in her weekly column, exclusively...
Education, Economics and Happiness
The education in India is too straitjacketed to produce a progressive, happy society. It is not going to produce enough innovative people, or ideas, to really take on the...
Taaru-da, Kaalu-da and the Banquet Scene
Durga Pujo and plays are inseparable. Neelum recalls, tongue-in-cheek, about her grandfather’s, who directed a play, in the 1930s, in Allahabad’s oldest Colonelganj Barwari, on the very important day,...
Technologies Help us See a Better Tomorrow
Bangalore-based Farheen tells us about brilliant innovations that has been made possible because of technologies making life easier. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Technologies...
The Emergence of Plastic Surgery from the Renaissance to the Present Day – II
In the second part, Shameena tells us about the brief rise of plastic surgery during the Renaissance. The two World Wars led to the innovations, making plastic and cosmetic...
A Peek into the Revolutionary Technologies of 2017
Farheen tells us about three revolutionary technologies that will soon change our lifestyles, in the weekly column, exclusively on Different Truths. Some of the technologies that helped us keep...