My Service to Mankind
In this verse, Ashok tells us about his commitment as a poet and a person, exclusively for Different Truths. I woke up for humanity I walk and walk for...
In Pursuit of an Elusive Akhand Bharat
The political dialogue has changed completely from a hitherto common plank that was to some extent regardless of caste, creed or religion to one with religious overtones that favor...
Reetwika Banerjee: Five Books, Three Films, 13 Awards makes her a Young Achiever
Reetwika Banerjee, a columnist with Different Truths, is a young achiever. She has won 13 awards for her five books and three films. T Mukherjee interviews her, exclusively for...
Marxism is a Living Science 200 Years Later: Its Revolutionary Ideas are Guide to Action
Marxism is a revolutionary theory. Without it, protests against capitalist exploitation and oppression are limited to demands for reforms, to efforts to alleviate symptoms, without curing the disease. Here’s...
Revisiting the Bengali Renaissance through the Eyes of Tagore
Aseem critiques the Bengali Renaissance and the role that Tagore played in it, as Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. “I have become my own version of an optimist....
Marxism is Scientifically Sound, Communist Revolutions only Road to Change
Speaking on the occasion of the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx in a seminar on ‘Scientific Socialism and Challenges today’ at Chak Simra, Ghoorpur, on Saturday (May 5)...
Marxism is the Only Potent Power for Change: Political Correlation of Forces Must Shift to Left
Marxism is not a dogma but a ‘creative science’. It is based on, amongst others, “a concrete analysis of concrete conditions”. Marxism is an approach to the analysis of...
Cambridge Analytica, Rahul Gandhi on Social Media, NaMo App and Psychographics: The Debate Thickens
In the wake of the statement made by Ravi Shanker Prasad on data leak by Facebook, it is worth debating – where does psychographics take us? Is data privacy...
Jai Ramji Ki to All in Cambridge Analytica: Truth of Wylie about What Indians Eat, Drink and Die For
Seventy years after the British left India, ending its colonial trip in the subcontinent, it was left to a Canadian expat in Britain to tell “we the people of...
Turbans are an Integral Part of Sikhism – III
The next two parts deal with turbans amongst the Sikhs, tracing its genesis, how it’s worn and other details. Here’s an in-depth research by Shameena, in the weekly column,...