thinker Archives - Different Truths

February 19, 2024
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

How to Deal with Your Boss?

Preeyan’s article explores “boss issues” and provides strategies for cultivating a positive dynamic, exclusively for Different Truths. Any corporate structure, however flat, claims to have a hierarchy within the...

May 10, 2021
Nilakshi Roy
Fiction, Films, Special Feature, Tribute

Tagore, Ray and Basu: The Broken Nest, Charulata, and Stories from Rabindranath Tagore

There are many admirers of Satyajit Ray’s film, Charulata (1964), which is often seen as a retelling of the story of Rabindranath Tagore’s own time spent with his elder brother...

May 11, 2018
Basudeb Chakraborti
Religion, Travel & Food

An Inward Journey to Bodh Gaya: An Awakening of the Self

The Buddhist temples built by many South Asian countries here are unique for pervasive tranquillity that penetrates even the heart of an atheist. The silence is so deep that...

March 21, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema

A Great Film on the Man Who Changed the World: Raoul Peck Gives a New Dimension to the Life of Young Marx

The director, Haiti’s former culture minister Raoul Peck, who made the Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro in 2016, wondered if he would find finance for his film. He...

February 5, 2018
Devesh Chandra Mishra
Poem

I am Thinking

Devesh imagines a beautiful world and wishes it is true, in the verse, for Different Truths. I’m thinking So I’m a thinker I ‘m writing So I’m a writer...

January 15, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Advocacy, Economy

Will the Union Budget Respond to the Demand of the Civil Society for a Universal Pension Scheme?

The letter written on behalf of the Pension Parishad, a network of 100 civil society organisations in it, is in response to recent reports indicating that the Centre was...

October 22, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Cover Story, Environment, History & Culture, Religion

Old Habits Die Hard

Thinkers had started eulogising light and darkness and various other elements of nature, a leading factor towards the concept of gods; this thought created stories imagining evils being killed...

October 21, 2017
Lata Pall
Book Launch, Criticism, Poem

The Fire Within

Lata reports about a book launch of Neelam Saxena Chanda and picks the mind of the able poet-writer, exclusively in Different Truths. Neelam Saxena Chandra, a bureaucrat, a thinker,...

September 5, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Education & Career, Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Feature

A True Teacher is a Beacon of Light, Dispelling Darkness of Ignorance

A teacher not only imparts gyan or information but also imparts knowledge and life skills to the student. It is said that a teacher is a motivator, an influencer,...

August 28, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Potpourri

Three Reasons why you should Inculcate a Habit of Reading

Ritambhara tells us the benefits of inculcating a habit of reading, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Way back, in the early 90s, as a child, I...

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