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 –...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Kerala Gets Cold Shoulder in 2018-19 Budget: LDF Govt. Pays Price for Anti-RSS Stance
The budget has turned a blind eye to Kerala’s demand for allocations for the Thalassery-Mysuru railway line and the Sabari line. The budget has also been deafeningly silent on...