Giving out the Prizes
A new legislation made it mandatory to spend money on CSR. This excited the author and brought him back to his activist college days, before decades of selling to...
The Great Sunday Family Meal: Lets Dine together
Eating family meals is associated with healthier dietary habits. Surveys have found that teenagers that eat with families consume less soda and unhealthy foods. Also, their diets fared better...
Supreme Court Lands in another Major Crisis: Judicial Impropriety in Conflicting Judgements on Land Acquisition
Conflicting judgements on land acquisition exposes a major crisis in judicial impropriety. Here’s a weekly round-up of the major decisions of the courts in India as also legal policy...
Political Delicacies: Mamata Reaches Out to the Hindus
TMC has embarked on a new strategy to woo the majority community by their new strategy of reaching out to priests by organising conferences in different districts. TMC leaders...
Uphill Battle for BJP in Left Bastion Tripura
The BJP’s strenuous endeavours show a willingness to work hard if only to prepare the ground for future gains, although there may not be any immediate advantages. True, the...
Kashmiri Journalists, Real and Unreal: Many of Them Owe Allegiance to Pakistan
Here’s a report on Kashmiri journalists, real and unreal, and how they are indoctrinated against India, for Different Truths. Kamran Yusuf is a Kashmiri photo-journalist. The other day, the...
Privatisation Key Issue in Medical Education: Draft Bill Overlooks Most Important Issue
The process to revamp medical regulation started after the Supreme Court took cognizance of malfunctioning of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and directed for a new system, which...
Azaadi Does not Brook Compulsion-Vumpulsion, say JNU Students
More than 7,000 students of JNU have collectively and compulsorily boycotted compulsory attendance. Teachers, too, are refusing to mark attendance. Here’s a report for Different Truths. The word ‘compulsory’...
Dividing South Indian Cutlet: The Final Frontier
The young protestors were angry at being served ‘beef cutlet’ at a college get-together. They were apparently “fooled” into eating beef by the college administration. Somewhere in the commentary,...
Challenges for the Two National Parties Ahead of the 2019 Elections
Both the national parties, Congress and the BJP, have moved beyond what they stood for in their ‘original form’ of course but we need a leader that can represent...