maternity Archives - Different Truths

December 2, 2025
Debjani Guha
Cover Story, Education & Career, Gender, Human Rights

Education, Employment, and Empowerment of Women in India: From 1986 Onwards

Deblina and Debjani’s research shows that women are in better position than before, which was unimaginable even two or three decades back. They talk about the various initiatives taken by...

March 8, 2024
Dr. Brajesh Kumar Gupta
Gender, Special Feature

Are we Empowering Women Ensuring Participation in Every Aspect of Life?

Dr. Brajesh discusses women’s empowerment, focusing on improving social, economic, political, and legal strength, ensuring equal rights, and fostering confidence, exclusively for Different Truths. Women – the life-givers, the...

December 27, 2021
Roger Sandeep Virk
Fiction, Special Feature

The Orbit

An engrossing fiction about changing values and relationships, by Sandeep, exclusively for Different Truths. “Aryan, beta hurry up or we will miss the beginning of the movie.” “I am...

November 4, 2019
Dr. Alok Kumar Ray
Poem

Maternity

Dr. Alok Kumar RayDr. Alok K. Ray is a bi- lingual poet who writes both in English and Odia languages. His poems have been published in a number of...

April 14, 2018
Tatjana Debeljacki
Designing, Illustrations, Interview, Painting, Photography, Publishing 2

Gordan Ćosić: A Visual Author of Life and Times

Tatjana interviewed Gordan Ćosić, an eminent artist, illustrator, designer, and photographer, from Serbia, exclusively for Different Truths. Gordan Ćosić, a renowned Serbia-based artist, and photographer, authors his life and...

February 1, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema

Why did Bhansali Reduce Rani Padmini to a Vagina, not allow Women to Live after Rape? And Alauddin his Fun!

The feminist in actor’s guise, who watched period drama Padmaavat, walked out a zombie, the feminist in her raped and ravaged. How dare, Mr. Bhansali, Sir, reduce her to...

January 28, 2018
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Human Rights

Human Rights Reframed: Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was mainly drafted by the colonial powers thus voices of third world countries could not be heard in the noble document since...

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...

October 23, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Gender, Law & Order

From Practice to Perfect: Sex with Minor Wife Criminalised by the SC

In a landmark judgement, the Apex Court ruled out the exception u/s 375(2) of the IPC as being unconstitutional, stating that if any husband engages in sexual intercourse with...

April 29, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

British Colonialism Contributed to the Growth of Indian Literature in English

How did the British rule in India contribute to the growth of Indian Literature in English? Basudeb probes into history and finds answers, in the weekly column, exclusively in...