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July 14, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, LGBTQIA+

Opening the Door to Gay Room

Gay activist Harish Iyer, in a counter to BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who says homosexuality is “deviant”, insisted that homosexuality was a “variant” and that psychiatrists have said that....

June 23, 2018
Sushmita Mukherjee
Criticism

Hi Friend, Hyphen!

Sushmita dwells on the small dash, the hyphen. Other than its grammatical functions, it revealed something unique to this scribe. Read more, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different...

April 17, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor, Travel & Food

Mapless in Madras

The columnist and his young wife were next woken up at Kanyakumari, which was completely deserted and pitch dark, at about two in the morning, and the bus went...

April 12, 2018
IPA Service
Cyber Security

Always Listening, Always Recording Masters of the Universe: No Matter Phone on or off, Snooping is on

Facebook has data about complete strangers, never logged, never clicked ‘like’ or ‘share’. That is the bigger cover-up. Tech giants like Facebook and Google, besides being evasive, are also...

March 23, 2018
IPA Service
People, Potpourri

The Lie That Cambridge Analytica can Sway FB Indians: 90 percent of Personal Data are Fake

FB boasts it can influence more than half the human population. Maybe. But not all the personal data of 2 billion human beings locked in FB is authentic data....

March 13, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor, Literature

The Custodian

Soumya shares the highs and lows of hitch-hiking in a truck, after a cancelled flight to Delhi, with two men and a lady. Read more about this adventure, in...

March 10, 2018
Reetwika Banerjee
Cyber Security

Vishing Attack: Cybercrime over Voice

With the advent of telecommunication technology, the attackers have also come up with an innovative strategy to fool users through fake phone calls. It utilises similar deceptive techniques of...

March 8, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema, Politics

Big Boss Kamal and Dark Horse Rajini

Who is the dark horse – Kamal the Big Boss or Rajini the Kaala? The only ‘similar’ about Rajini and Kamal is that both are actor-turned-politicians. Superstars! Both have...

February 6, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

When Names Determine the Sex!

Humourist Soumya tells us the gender confusion that names create, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. In the days before gender identity became infra dig and when...

January 9, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Parenting, People, Relationship & Lifestyle

Wish Colleagues Could be Friends?

Hemashri looks inward and wonders whether colleagues could be friends in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Somewhere I read that colleagues are friends ‘imposed’ on us! Just...