Is the Stock Market Overvalued?
There are various metrics to measure the value of a stock market. The most common or popular is Earning per share, or EPS, for short. That one metric gives...
Kaleidoscope 2017
An eminent writer, Sutapa, whose talked-about book is soaring the bestsellers charts tells us about her journey in the year that was. She also shares her review about some of the...
BJP sweeps the UP Civic Polls, with SP, BSP, and Congress Making Substantial Gains
Our Associate Editor, Navodita, analyses BJP’s sweeping the UP Civic Polls, wondering if it would bolster BJP’s Gujarat campaign. The emergence of women in the elections is a change...
A Critical Analysis of Human Rights with Focus on Foundational Weakness and Dual Nature of Human Rights
Our Editor-at-Large (Europe), Amit, raises questions that are of immediate relevance to international politics, as human rights are increasingly ‘mainstreamed’ into the policy framework of states. He critically reflects on...
Shantiniketan: Tagore set a School Amidst Nature, Unfettered the Young Minds – I
Rabindranath was unhappy with the British schooling system of sitting enclosed within four walls of high raised solid buildings. It was a feeling of suffocation he experienced, when the...
Durga and her Entourage in a Jawed Habib Salon: Reverence, Irreverence, Trolls, Erotica and the Liberal Hindu Mind
There’s public outrage on the social media about the newspaper advertisement of Goddess Durga’s family dolling themselves in a Jawed Habib salon. The celebrity hairstylist is being trolled on...
Students Debate Global Child Rights Issues at Model United Nations
CRY organised a two-day debating session called Model United Nations in Kolkata. A report in Different Truths. The rain-soaked city of Kolkata witnessed a bunch of young students step...
Faraz Ansari: Will India respond to the Sisak of the LGBTQ Community?
Director Faraz Ansari’s Sisak is the first silent LGBTQ film of India that is not only creating waves at international film festivals but winning awards too; seven, so far....
Is the Indian Democracy Declining?
Our Editor-at-Large, Norway-based Amit, focuses on the declining democratic values and rising fascistic, extremist and dictatorial tendencies in contemporary Indian politics and society. An expose with hard facts, exclusively...
How Media Constructs Identities and Influences us
Media uses language to construct public perception through style, structure, and images. It also presents an implicitly biased perspective to a wide audience on certain issues and sometimes,...