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January 9, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Parenting, People, Relationship & Lifestyle

Wish Colleagues Could be Friends?

Hemashri looks inward and wonders whether colleagues could be friends in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Somewhere I read that colleagues are friends ‘imposed’ on us! Just...

December 14, 2017
Bushra Alvi Razzack
Poem

The Culprit

A powerful protest poem by Bushra. Here we see the poet as a Social Journalist, in Different Truths. My poem, The Culprit, was written when I was in the...

December 12, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Economy

Is Economic Growth a Mere Statistic or is it Reaching the Common Man in India?

GDP does not provide a complete picture of economic and societal progress. Despite being a broad measure, GDP leaves out several things. The enormous value of the country’s natural...

November 29, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Advocacy, Gender, Parenting

Meet Sonia Jolly, a Mother and a Good Samaritan to 45 Daughters

Sonia Jolly, a lady from an affluent family, runs ‘Upkaar Hum Hain’, an NGO, at Satna, Madhya Pradesh. She has been taking care and looking after 45 girl children,...

November 24, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Food, History & Culture

Potatoes on My Plate!

Ruchira tells us about the antiquity and history of potatoes and its varied uses, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I am a non-vegetarian, by default, since...

November 6, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Brahma Kumaris and Raj Yoga Meditation

The primary teachings at Brahma Kumaris are Raj Yoga meditation. It is considered to be one of the most effective forms of meditation to enthuse life with new energy...

November 2, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Doubt of Brahma Deepens – XLVII

The divinity, manifest as Krishna, multiplied himself. From one he became many. He became the cowherds, the calves that were grazing, the rope around the neck of the calves...

October 28, 2017
Samrudhi Dash
Book Review, Criticism, Poem

An Eerie Beauty in the Poems of Wani Nazir

Because beauty at its purest is fierce, powerful and terrible captivates the reader. Wani Nazir’s poems have that eerie beauty in them, says Samrudhi, reviewing his book of poems,...

October 3, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Cinema, Humour, Politics

A Bollywood Analysis: AAP Yahan Aye, Kisliye?

The intellectual in the drawing room had reached the conclusion, depending on affiliation, that AAP is BJP’s B team and Congress mole, says our humourist Soumya, in the...

September 17, 2017
Arindam Roy
Crime, Edit, Education & Career, Human Rights, Law & Order, Legal Issues, Parenting, Special Feature

Shall our Children Inherit a Future Replete with Shame, Molestation, Rape, and Murder?

Editor-in-Chief, Arindam, anguishes about the unsafe and insecure future that our children would inherit if we do not wake up to the growing crimes against children. He introduces the...