marry Archives - Different Truths

August 8, 2026
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Puppy Love: The K9 Kind

Humourist Soumya talks about canine love, with paroxysms of emotions, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The first canine love in my life was my grandfather’s Daschund,...

June 10, 2024
Payal Talreja
Gender

Boys will (Not) be Boys: Towards a more Human Society

We talk all the time about what we would teach our daughters, but we equally need to engage in reorienting that which is taught to our sons, not just...

May 30, 2024
Tooba Masood
Gender

The Right Shade of Feminism

Feminism has many layers of meaning. Tooba critiques it, saying that with concepts like feminism, it is sad that much of what it never stood for is now attributed...

January 7, 2022
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

A Hole in the Bag

An intriguing story about the interconnectedness of a sling bag and its owner, Karthik. The surprise element of this fantasy fiction makes it enigmatic. Here’s the story, this week,...

December 28, 2021
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Fiction, Special Feature

Book Extract: For the Love of a Man

The book For the Love of a Man is a heavily fictionalized account of her life that lays bare taboo subjects like female sexuality, exposing what right-thinking people would carry...

July 4, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, People

A Lesson on Life Management

Appearances are often deceptive. Hemashri tells us the story of Gitali, a cleaner in a government office. At a young age, life taught her much more than the books...

May 15, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Literature, People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

Touching Lives

She wanted to marry a classmate from her business school, who was from a different community and working in another small town at the end of the country. They seemed...

February 27, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Supreme Court Lands in another Major Crisis: Judicial Impropriety in Conflicting Judgements on Land Acquisition

Conflicting judgements on land acquisition exposes a major crisis in judicial impropriety. Here’s a weekly round-up of the major decisions of the courts in India as also legal policy...

February 14, 2018
IPA Service
Potpourri

V-DAY is Alien to our Culture: Dating has no Equivalent in Indian Languages

Growing up in India, many born before the millennial years did not need a V-Day to express love, get tied. It was so much more peaceful. The flirting was...

February 8, 2018
Tarun Gupta
Economy, Education & Career

Student Loan: This is no Guru Dakshina

Generally, the privately funded colleges have higher brand values, thus, they are able to get higher pay packages for their recruitment programmes. Since a student is able to get...