March Archives - Different Truths

November 4, 2025
Anumita Roy
Potpourri

DST: The Ebb and Flow of the Flux of Time

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus likened time to the constant flow of river water. Time present is always in flux. It’s ephemeral. Man has grappled with time since eons. Here Anumita...

March 13, 2022
Michele Baron
Gender, History & Culture, Special Feature

Women Struggled More Than a Century for Empowerment

In Copenhagen, 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, German activist Clara Zetkin raised a vote, supported by women from 17 nations, to organise an International Working Women’s Day....

May 29, 2021
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

The Wild March Winds …

As cyclones ravage us, Sarala remembers the romance of March winds, in this evocative love poem, exclusively for Different Truths. The March winds Swept away her heart To the...

July 3, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Market Betting with Pension Funds Could be Risky

The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) investment in equities via exchange-traded funds (ETFs) generated 17.23 percent return as of February this year. It had invested Rs 41,967.51 crore in ETFs. EPFO...

July 2, 2018
Manish Kaithwas
Cover Story, Crime, Gender, Human Rights, Legal Issues

When Solutions are worse than Problems: Analysing Amendments in POCSO and Rape Laws

The death penalty of convicts, definitely, does not hold an answer to the burning question of a rise in rape and related crimes. Even Justice Verma Committee has said,...

June 19, 2018
Dr. Paramita Mukherjee Mullick
History & Culture, Travel & Food

The Iron Lady of France

The Eiffel Tower is the backbone of Paris. It is a permanent feature of the Paris skyline. The Eiffel Tower on the Champ de Mars was completed on March 31,...

May 19, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Challenges in Indian Economy this Fiscal: Corruption Continues to Eat into Vitals

The road ahead is bumpy for India’s growth story. Though India has been in a sweet spot umpteen times in the last couple of decades, its economy never grows...

May 18, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Consolidation of Anti-BJP Forces is the Need of the Hour

All the top leaders of Left parties who greeted the Congress of Communist Party of India held at Kollam, Kerala, too confirmed the urgent need to unite all secular,...

May 18, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, Politics

Adieu Sweet Yeddy, 112 Times!

The Supreme Court judgement puts to rest at least one anxiety: No horse-trading. With the DGP told to provide security to MLAs till they arrive to vote, the Chief...

May 12, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

PPP, PTI Adopt Tactical Truce to Remember Black Day: Pak Right Wing Parties Try to Exploit Rift

On this day during the regime of Pervez Musharraf, nearly 50 people were killed, with hundreds injured due to a sanguinary riot between the political activists of Musharraf-backed Muttahida...

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