Is the Stock Market Overvalued?
There are various metrics to measure the value of a stock market. The most common or popular is Earning per share, or EPS, for short. That one metric gives...
Bitcoin: Every New Bubble is the Same Old Story
Bitcoin is a virtual currency, which is generated through a mathematical formula by a computer software at regular time intervals. By 2040, 21 million bitcoins would be generated, explains...
Were the Britishers Wrong?
In her weekly column for Different Truths, Hemashri takes stock of how government offices work, along with all the absurdities that come with them. They say life begins at...
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...
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...
Indian Banking Sector needs Incremental, not Sweeping Changes
It is to the credit of the Raghuram Rajan Committee that it is more focused in its approach. A concern is also expressed about social obligations, delinking the government...
Exit Polls Predict BJP Victory, AAP questions these Polls
While the News Nation and Today’s Chanakya-News 24 polls predicted the BJP getting a mean of 120 and 135 seats respectively in 182-member Assembly, the Aaj Tak-Axis exit poll...
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...
Age is Just a Number
Here’s a tongue-in-cheek view on aging and how society views the elders, by Delhi-based Ruchira, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Honestly, I am thoroughly peeved with...
Amma Meri, a Bold Film, Exposes the Bitter Truth of Agrarian India
Here’s an exclusive interview, by Mahima, of the independent writer-director Tarun Jain whose short film, Amma Meri, has got the honour to be screened at the IFFI, Goa. A thought-provoking film...