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June 13, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

A Life-Enriching Training

Hemashri shares her experience of training as a bureaucrat, which enriched her. She shares her experience in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I was nominated for training...

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 7, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

When Pastoral Becomes Political and the Peril in Democracy

Those fighting for the archbishops’ right to freedom of expression question that if a mahant can be made ‘chief minister’, what’s wrong in an archbishop issuing a pastoral-political letter. Here’s...

June 6, 2018
IPA Service
Economy, Poverty, World

Thousands of British Citizens Trapped in High Debt: Social Care Cuts Hit Working Class Families

Despite an ageing population, the social care sector is rapidly decreasing, with figures released in 2017 suggesting that as many as 49 percent of frontline care jobs have vanished...

June 6, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Kerala Polity Acquiring a Redder Hue: Outlook Ominous for Congress, BJP

CPI(M) candidate Saji Cherian retained the seat by trouncing Congress candidate D Vijaya Kumar by a record margin of over 20,000 votes. BJP’s P S Sreedharan Pillai, who was...

June 2, 2018
Reetwika Banerjee
Crime, Cyber Crime, Cyber Security

Tombstone Attack can Prosecute Your Dead Parents

Tombstone scammers steal dead identities mostly for three reasons – to commit financial frauds, enjoy medical benefits or perform criminal acts behind a cloned individual. But the best part of...

May 31, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

By-Poll Results Give Big Boost to Opposition Unity

It is now obvious that a united opposition can defeat the BJP. As much is clear from the Kairana and Noorpur by-election results which are a continuation of the...

May 31, 2018
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Akrura visits Krishna – LXXIV

Nilanjana recounts the tale of Akrura and Krishna, from the Srimad Bhagavatam, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Parikshit asked, “So now Akrura was on his way...

May 30, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Education & Career

The Professor Challenged Me

What appears rude, crude or too strict to us, during our student days, are perhaps blessings in disguise. Hemashri pays her tribute to one such professor, in the weekly...

May 28, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Jokihat By-Election a Referendum for Nitish: Teacher and Student Pitted Against Each Other

The by-election has acquired importance for Nitish, not only from the point of retaining the seat but as a popularity test. Both have campaigned vigorously to win the seat,...