rules Archives - Different Truths

January 20, 2021
Tali Cohen Shabtai
Poem

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...

July 13, 2018
Shameena Abdurahiman
Beauty, Fashion

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...

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...

May 28, 2018
IPA Service
Economy, International Relations, Politics, World

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...

May 25, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

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...

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Banking, Economy

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...

April 1, 2018
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Economy, Politics

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...

March 28, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy, Trade

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,...

March 9, 2018
IPA Service
Corruption

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...

February 24, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

How Trinamool Splits Anti-BJP Consolidation: Increasing Evidence of Tacit Understanding with BJP

Are the TMC and the BJP in a clandestine tie-up of sorts? Opposition parties in Bengal are convinced that they are. Both the Congress and the CPI(M)-led Left Front...