Diets, Alcohol and Millionaires
Here’s a tongue-in-cheek account on how our diets and alcohol affect our longevity, and how the rich and the famous lived and died, by Dr. Kulmeet. He dispels many...
The Secrets of Fingernails
Here’s a tongue-in-cheek look at fingernails and the secrets they reveal by Devika. Overload of thoughts and thinking leaves me baffled. That, in turn, boomerangs at the end of the...
Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure
Bhaskaranand reviews the poetry of U Atreya Sharma and critiques his book Sunny Rain-n-Snow, exclusively for Different Truths. Sunny Rain-n-Snow is a beautiful folio of sixty-three poems well-wrought by U...
Ghosts and Vultures Wait in the Wings: There is Killing to be made in Realty
The first “sightings” of ghosts in Charki-Dadri, where two aircraft fell after colliding midair, killing over 300, were reported nearly two-and-a-half months after the horrific mishap. The ‘House of...
2019 Election Launch Pad of BJP is Out
Arun Shourie, like one BJP spokesperson says, is cursed with “too many grey cells for his own good” – he loses himself in the labyrinth. What to make of...
Virat and Anushka Smitten by the Modi Bug
Modi was the guest of honour at one of Virushka’s marriage receptions. That seems to have kind of left a halo around the heads of Virushka. Anushka became a...
Gossip, Rumour and Test-Tube Sita: Guessing Game over Pranab Da or Mamata Di
There’s no limit to the cycle of birth and rebirth; to rumour and gossip. Mamata Didi’s post-mortem of the BJP in Purulia after leaving to the vultures the carcass...
India-Hater Shahid Afridi is Out of Favour in Dubai: Police Chief Wonders why Pakistanis are Troublemakers
The only thing going for Shahid Afridi is the Muslim identity he shares with the Kashmiri. Otherwise, he is lost Pashtun in the Valley like his ‘Pashtun Idol’ Imran...
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...
Still I Rise: Celebrating Womanhood on IWD 2018
Our Editor-in-Chief, Arindam, tells about this year’s theme of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2018. He introduces three erudite editors and includes their editorials in this editorial. His thank...