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December 17, 2017
Nikita Goel
Cover Story, Relationship & Lifestyle

Hinduism Never Considered Homosexuality a Disease or a Crime

The lines dividing male and female, heterosexual and homosexual were blurred in ancient India. These tales have been passed on from one generation to another with pride. Perhaps they...

December 1, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Beauty, Health

Why is Sleep Important? – III

In the third and final part of the three-part article on sleep, our fashionista, Shameena, tells us why sleep is important. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in...

November 5, 2017
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, History & Culture

Tipu Sultan: A Hero or a Charlatan?

The deeds and misdeeds of Tipu Sultan are aired, discussed, debated and washed like dirty linen by all and sundry again and again even 300 years later, while a...

September 11, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Phase Where Gauri Died

Here’s a tribute for Gauri Lankesh, in verse, by Kabir, in Different Truths. I am a pen Many use me for pleasure By writing on domestic islands Few use...

August 27, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Governance, History & Culture

Why do we Seek Solace in the Past; is our Present too Grim?

Living in this century we all face numerous challenges still let us be optimistic and take a relook at our glorious past, revisit our history books and re-learn a...

July 23, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Cinema, Music

Kishore Kumar: A Maverick Genius, Eccentric, Temperamental, High-strung and Talented

Samina profiles the Maverick Kishore Kumar, heartthrobs of millions, across generations, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. An eccentric, temperamental, high strung, yet talented, creative, multifaceted...

June 21, 2017
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, Arts, Special Feature

A Nation in Exile

In 1959, the situation inside Tibet led His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama to seek refuge in India and ever since millions of Tibetans are living as refugees in...

May 31, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Two Cups of Grain…

A powerful poem from Sarala, which depicts the trials, tribulations and the joy of farmers, who starve to feed millions, in Different Truths. Let me write a poem gathering...

May 17, 2017
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy

Amma la: The Agony of Separation from Mother and Motherland

As the world celebrated Mother’s Day, on Sunday, it sharpened the agonies of separation of mother and motherland for the Tibetan Refugees, in India. Eswar profiles their pain, in...

May 7, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Films

Two Taurean Beauties Hrishitaa Bhatt and Sunny Leone are Model-turned-Actresses

Hrishitaa Bhatt was a Liril model before she ventured into Bollywood as an actress. Sunny Leone too entered the film through modelling, though she was a porn queen, before she...