intervention Archives - Different Truths

August 8, 2026
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Puppy Love: The K9 Kind

Humourist Soumya talks about canine love, with paroxysms of emotions, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The first canine love in my life was my grandfather’s Daschund,...

July 3, 2026
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty, History & Culture

Tattoo: A Primeval Art Form and an Individual Style Statement

Our fashionista, Kula Lumpur-based Shamina, delves into the history and traditions of tattoos, a primeval art form. She also sees its relevance as a contemporary style statement of an...

June 10, 2026
Shirin Shabana Khan
Crime, Gender, Human Rights

Reality and Intervention of Witch Hunting: A Crime against Human Dignity

The modus operandi is to disgrace and ostracise the victim. Shirin Shabana highlights the witch hunting cases in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere, suggesting the way out, in the weekly column, exclusively...

May 14, 2026
Farheen Viquas
Health, Science & Technology

The Magical Flying Ambulance: A Redeemer

The cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) by bystanders who witnessed a cardiac arrest can considerably improve survival. Farheen tells us how drones can...

January 22, 2025
Dr Baljeet Singh Virk
International Relations, Special Feature, War & Conflicts

Focus: Repercussions of Foreign States’ Intervention in Syrian Crisis

Dr Baljeet discusses Syria’s decade-long crisis, characterised by political instability, economic collapse, and a diverse society of Sunni Muslims, Shias, Alawites, Ismailis, and Christians, exclusively for Different Truths. Syria,...

April 9, 2024
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy

Rights of the Elderly: Government Policies and Schemes for Older Persons

Rita takes a look into the rights of the elderly and educates us about various government policies and schemes for the elders, in the weekly, exclusively for Different Truths....

March 9, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Gender, People

Getting up on the Inside

We profile ordinary women with extraordinary strength. They find the reservoir of strength within themselves, like Yashodhara. Every year, the Women’s Day becomes a cosmetic celebration of already known...

April 29, 2023
Payal Talreja
Advocacy, Children's Right, Gender, Health, Special Needs

Girls and Autism: Missed Diagnosis and Mis-diagnosis

Boys are four times as likely to receive early diagnosis and intervention for ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) than girls. There was a time when it was believed that ASD...

October 3, 2022
Susmita Bhattacharya
Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

Durga Puja Nostalgia: Opening an Old Album and the Paroxysms of Emotions

Freshly returned from South America, first time Durga Puja to experience yet the vast unsettled feeling from being brought to a quite stringent and conservative environment in Batanagar from the...

May 11, 2021
Lovita J. R. Morang
People, Place, Special Feature, Tribute

Tagore in Love: Letters from Shillong, Khublei Shibun

It was in the month of May, Lovita was in Shillong with a sole sojourn to be there, where Tagore lived, 99 years ago (first time in 1919)....