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September 7, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Science & Technology

Technology: Pain, Sweat, Blood and Body Heat

Technology can now quantify pain experienced by a patient and help doctors’ prognosis. It won’t be easy to fake pain anymore. A device made from paper detects biomarkers and...

August 5, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Potpourri

Three Facts about International Friendship Day

Though July 30 is the official International Friendship Day (IFD), according to the United Nations, the majority of the countries across the world celebrate this day on the first...

July 23, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Centre Point

Here’s a sensitive and evocative poem by Kabir, in Different Truths. While she revolves with her neighbours We initiate our own story Some with a sob while others with...

July 16, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Cinema, Music

Music was the Genetic Code of RD Burman, a Trendsetter, an Iconic and Eclectic Composer

RD Burman was a musician with the difference, a trendsetter, an iconic, eclectic, composer, who was born with music and rhythm in his genes. A wizard, he could combine...

July 2, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Suicides

Here’s a poem on a pertinent socioeconomic issue, suicides by farmers. A protest poem by Kabir, in Different Truths. Peeling off the roots they cry Tears roll and feed...

May 30, 2017
Sunita Singh
Poem

Trees: The Givers!

Sunita celebrates the tree in a poem replete with rich images, in Different Truths. A row of trees Looks the same And yet so different- These glowing greens- Some...

April 16, 2017
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

Supermoon

A 25-year-old roadie, Nalin, meets a witch, Maya, an elderly widow. It’s a full moon night. Tapan takes us through many twists and turns, with sparks flying. Was Maya...

April 11, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Cover Story, History & Culture, Travel & Food

A Tour into the Fearsome, Doomed World of the Freemantle Prison

The Freemantle Prison is the only World Heritage listed building in Western Australia. Built in the 1850’s by the prisoners themselves, it was used as a barracks for convicts...

April 4, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Balancing the Books

We just crossed over to a new financial year in India, on April 1. This is the time to balance the books, says humourist Soumya, tongue-in-cheek. Read more in...

March 14, 2017
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, People, Religion

Children of Hope: Face to Face with Dalai Lama

Eswar reminisces meeting His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama for the first time. He recalls the deep reverence among the Tibetan people for their religious leader. Read more about...

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