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August 18, 2018
IPA Service
Environment, Natural Calamity

Malayali Greed has Come Home to Roost: Unprecedented Flood Devastation is Man-Made

It is no time for a blame game. And yet it may be not be inappropriate to do a reality check. The agonising experience has put the fear of...

July 17, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee

The Price of Life

Here’s an evocative real-life account of the survivors during the partition, in 1947. A little lad was celebrating the survival of his mother and him, dancing the Bhangra –...

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
Economy, Poverty

India is the Second Most Unequal Country, Globally

New World Wealth, a Johannesburg-based company, published a report where it claimed that India is the second-most unequal country in the world, with millionaires controlling 54 percent of the...

April 15, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Economy, History & Culture

Financial Frauds Continue Since Ages…

Financial frauds are perhaps as old as human civilisation. Tapati traces the antiquity of the swindle, as recorded in various ancient civilisations. Kautilya lists forty kinds of misappropriation of...

March 24, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
International Relations, Politics, World

Despite Economic Slowdown Popularity of Vladimir Putin is all-time High in Russia

With more than 56 million votes, it was Putin’s biggest ever win and the largest by any post-Soviet Russian leader. But the OSCE, a rights watchdog, said restrictions on...

March 16, 2018
Anumita Roy
Food

Egg Malai Masala: An Interesting Twist to Egg Curry

Our Managing Editor, Anumita, shares an interesting version of the egg curry. Egg Malai Masala is her mother’s recipe. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths....

February 22, 2018
Madhumita Bhattacharjee Nayyar
Poem

Priceless!

A powerful women-centric poem by Madhumita, for Different Truths. Sad but true, How many years do You actually live? Or grow up to believe That you are living! Giving...

February 12, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema, Politics

Lilywhite Kamal Paints Lotus Rajini Saffron

Kamal is not sure if Rajini is saffron but he is sure enough that he probably isn’t. With ‘saffron’ Kamal is conveying that Rajini if he is saffron, must...

February 6, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Pre-Poll Promises to Farmers and Poor

After four years in power already, the Modi government achieving neither inclusive growth nor jobs in millions promised in 2014, should now wake up to the plight of distressed...