Politic 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...

May 31, 2025
Atrayee Bhattacharya
Fiction, Special Feature

Locked with Lantern and a Good Luck

Atrayee tells us an intriguing story about a NGC team, caught in the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict and a kidnapping. What happened to Twisha? Here’s a literary thriller, exclusively for Different...

November 20, 2023
Tapati Sinha
History & Culture

A Potion to Heal and Kill

Since thousands of years poisons have been both a deadly threat and a protective tool used around the world. Poisons have played a dominant role in our history and...

April 5, 2023
Kabir Deb
Poem

Processing

Here’s a protest poem by Kabir, in Different Truths. Living, a terrible forgotten emotion Knife, helps me think of a nation Tyranny, plans the burden to rise Monotony, imperialist...

March 8, 2022
Michele Baron
Gender, Special Feature

chains, choices, chances, change … considering Women’s Day

A newborn does not care about the mother’s credentials, caste, class, culture, creed or colour — only that the mother’s arms are strong, her hands supportive and gentle, that there is...

March 8, 2022
Dr. Brajesh Kumar Gupta
Gender, Special Feature

African Women and Colonisation

Many of the approaches used to analyse African colonial politics, economies, societies, and cultures were often gender-blind and tended to ignore women’s lives, experiences, contributions, voices, perceptions, representations, and struggles....

March 7, 2022
Hemashri Hazarika
Gender, Special Feature

Is Empowerment of Women a Distant Dream?

Women roughly constitute half the population but in every aspect women still remain grossly under-represented. Certainly, the women in the largest democracy of the world are ranked much below top hundred...

March 7, 2022
Luz Maria Lopez
Criticism, Gender

The Heritage of Latin American Women Writers

In Latin America, there is a tradition of women’s rights activism. Commitment to gender equality is not new in Latin America. In fact, Latin women’s empowerment has reached beyond...

July 22, 2021
Madhuri Bhattacharya
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Growing Up in Wilderness: African Stories of Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing was born to British parents, Alfred Taylor and Maud Me Veigh, in 1919. After the First World War, her father migrated to Africa and purchased three thousand...

May 12, 2021
Pramita Mallick
People, Place, Profile, Special Feature, Tribute

Mahaguru and Mahatma: A Reflection on the Relationship between Tagore and Gandhi

There were many striking contrasts between these two personalities. Yet they found some common chord and there began a friendship which lasted till Tagore’s death in 1941. As...

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