Hypnotism
Here’s a political poem by Kabir that lays bare the schemes by those in power, in Different Truths. Larger, engulfing voids are being hidden With a bunch of small effective...
Ideology as a Way of Life
An intense women-centric, distress poem, by Tali Cohen, exclusively for Different Truths Women like me, yes have been added over the years to overshadow what preceded us that is mostly...
How to Choose Contrast Colours to Create Fabulous Clothing!
Fashionista Shameena gives us invaluable tips on how to choose contrast colours that would complement our skin and hair colours. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively for Different...
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...
Unpredictable Trump Puts World Diplomacy in Disarray: Policy Rift with the USA Pushing India Closer to Russia, China
India told the WTO that it proposes to raise duties by up to 100 percent on 20 products such as almonds, apple and specific motorcycles imported from the US...
Four Years of Modi not a Bad Bargain for Economy: Probity in Decision-Making Seen Restored to a Degree
The first positive score would be that in four years we have not had one single instance of a major scandal. Accusations of money making on the sly by...
Banks Being Penalised While Big Fraudsters are at Large
Quizzically, PNB, a victim of the world’s biggest bank fraud ever, is out of RBI’s first prompt corrective action (PCA) list. The biggest global bank fraudster, Nirav Modi, who...
Democracy in Danger: FRCA Amended Retrospectively; Has India that is Bharat Already Lost the Plot
The amended Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FRCA) contains the seeds that can sow the beginnings of a take-over by any foreign power sooner than later but also smacks of...
GI Registry Needs to be Broad-based: Exclusion of MP from Basmati Cultivation Intriguing
The Chennai-based Geographical Indications (GI) Registry’s order in mid-March to exclude Madhya Pradesh from the area officially declared for the cultivation of the aromatic and widely consumed basmati rice,...
India Still in Most Corrupt Group: Rich Men go Scot-free, Poor are Punished
The Corruption Perception Indices for the last four years released by the Transparency International have also found rampant corruption in the country and placed India among the most corrupt...