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December 26, 2017
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, Relationship & Lifestyle

A Babu-Crazy Bureaucracy: Alexander the Great Syndrome Bamboozles Dignity!

Hemashri, an officer in the Northeast, offers an insider’s view of exploitation, discrimination, and the rude, arrogant behaviour of the creamy layer within the administrative services. Here’s a fictional account...

November 25, 2017
Arindam Roy
Awards & Honours, Edit

Different Truths has 93% Global Reach: Second Anniversary Report and Felicitations

Arindam RoyArindam Roy has over four decades of experience in various newsrooms of renowned media houses. He is the Founder, Publishing Director, Editor-in-Chief of Different Truths, and Kavya Kumbh...

October 10, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender, Religion

The Importance of Being Married: Karva Chauth and Attendant Hoopla

Payal takes a hard look at Karva Chauth fasting. She brilliantly critiques the tradition, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Yesterday was the popular day of fasting...

July 2, 2017
K Pankajam
Books, Politics, Subaltern & Dalits

A Retrospective of Concern for Human Values: Letters to Namdeo Dhasal by Chandramohan S

Chandramohan’s poems portray subaltern life with exactitude and his concern for human values is quite evident in almost all poems in this collection. Poem after poem one can sense...

June 27, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender, Parenting

A Happy Day for Fathers: Someday…

It is neither easy for men, nor women to transition their changing roles. Women are reluctant to give up the mystique of motherhood. And men have to prepare themselves...

June 24, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Nayantara Sahgal: A Novelist of the Indian Corridors of Political Power

Basudeb profiles Nayantara Sahgal, the second daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (sister of Jawaharlal Nehru). An important woman novelist of the 20th century, she penned many political novels too,...

May 14, 2017
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

Spirited

Here’s an interesting fantasy fiction about the world of the spirits, by Tapan, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I don’t know how much you are aware...

May 8, 2017
Chhavi Mehra
Multiculturalism, Subaltern & Dalits

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,...

April 23, 2017
Amit Singh
Cover Story

Right of Housing in India and Forced Eviction: Does the Disadvantaged have Enough Protection?

This article examines the protection mechanism of housing rights in India. The roles of Supreme Court and High Court have been discussed. In addition, NGOs roles are illustrated. For...

March 19, 2017
Amit Singh
Conflict & Resolution, Cover Story, Multiculturalism, Politics

Do the Muslims of Norway Pose Cultural Threat to Norwegian Identity?

Norway is a country which claims to protect and promote human rights at home and abroad. However, within the deeper layers of Norwegian society, to some extent, hidden racism...