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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...

September 15, 2021
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, Health, Technology

Using Home Cameras to Monitor the Elderly

Rita tells us how technology can be used to take care of the elderly. Patient Safety day is on September 17. A Special Feature exclusively for Different Truths. We’ve...

September 22, 2018
Jared Akama Onyari
Crime, Environment, Health, Special Feature

Dandora Dumpsite is a Bedroom for the Urban Poor in Nairobi

Dandora is the biggest dumpsite in Nairobi, an estate littered with dirt and overflowing sewers pouring into the drainage system. For most though, it is the high level of...

August 14, 2018
IPA Service
Economy, Health

There is no Health Devoid of Economic Wellbeing

The public sector is now responsible for the preventive services, while the private sector, on the other hand, is taking lead in advanced tertiary care with a profit motive....

August 1, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

Is it a sin to be sick?

In the weekly column, Hemashri tells us about the red tape and babuism in government departments for getting medical bills reimbursed. A Different Truths exclusive. Watching the agony of...

July 31, 2018
IPA Service
Health

Oxytocin Ban Would Put Many Patients in Serious Difficulty

Oxytocin is not the only the drug; several medicines which have been used in the past are now banned. Byproducts of opium, which are useful in many cases in...

June 29, 2018
Sarika Sarkar Das
Relationship & Lifestyle, Travel & Food

I Met Myself Far From the Madding Crowd

Sarika took a break from the routine. She packed her backpack and travelled solo to meet herself. Read about her adventure, exclusively in Different Truths. Travelling is very much...

June 11, 2018
Arindam Roy
Cover Story, Crime, Education & Career

Muscle, Money, Corruption, and Education Mafia are Deeply Entrenched in the Examination System– II

The examination system is rife with corruption. Its sanctity is highly suspect. It’s a big farce. Doctored and fake degrees are the passport to success in the job and...

June 11, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Creamy Layer Turns Messy and Uncanny: Supreme Court Bench Skips Most Contentious Issues

The decision by a vacation bench of the Supreme Court in a case about reservation in promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes last week may not have been...

June 6, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, People

Hemashri recounts a painful, real-life experience in a fictional voice in the weekly column exclusively for Different Truths. Syamoli still wonders whether colleagues could ever be friends! She wishes...