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July 9, 2020
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
History & Culture, Travel & Food

Shimla: Memories of a Bygone Era!

Ruchira Adhikari GhoshRuchira Adhikari Ghosh brings a liberal, wide-ranging outlook shaped by extensive travel across India and abroad. Educated at Holy Child School, New Delhi, Sacred Heart Convent, Ludhiana,...

January 7, 2020
Soumya Mukherjee
People, Potpourri

A Unique Experience

Soumya MukherjeeSoumya Mukherjee is an alumnus of St Stephens College and Delhi School of Economics. He earns his daily bread by working for a PSU Insurance company, and lectures...

September 24, 2018
Dr. Ranjana Sharan Sinha
Gender, Human Rights, Profile, Special Feature

Sojourner Truth, First Feminist to Assert Black Identity: Intersectionality and Truth

What Sojourner Truth may have been most famous for, not unlike the firebrand anarchist Emma Goldman, was her public speaking. Illiterate throughout her life, she nevertheless had a remarkable...

August 21, 2018
Dr. Paramita Mukherjee Mullick
Travel & Food

Wine Tasting Escapade

Winemaking in France started 2600 years ago. In the 19th century, some fungal disease wiped out the vineyards. So the French used some hybrid variety from the USA after the...

July 3, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Travel & Food

Jambo: Welcome to the Endless Grasslands

We drove on through the Ngorang Ngora highlands and into the Savannah, where the great animal migration was gathering steam. We encountered thousands of herbivores from the gigantic giraffe...

June 29, 2018
Sarika Sarkar Das
Relationship & Lifestyle, Travel & Food

I Met Myself Far From the Madding Crowd

Sarika took a break from the routine. She packed her backpack and travelled solo to meet herself. Read about her adventure, exclusively in Different Truths. Travelling is very much...

June 15, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations, World

Trump Restaurant at the End of the Universe: All Sins of Kim Stand Pardoned

How dare Trump forgive Kim’s original sins, his human rights record: The rabid K9s he set on his uncle. The general he rocket-launched to kingdom come. The brother he...

June 9, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Pranab Strikes Big Bang, Congress Hits Black Hole

Pranab Mukherjee did not have to “die first” to go back in time to retell history. He’s 82 and in his memory-cache there is enough of reading of history...

May 23, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

Prayers, Process, and Reforms: Some Things do Not Change for Ordinary People

The state administrative service is rife with arbitrariness and discrimination. Hemashri recounts how her study-leave prayer for higher studies at JNU, New Delhi, was denied, while two other batchmates...

April 25, 2018
Dr. Tzemin Ition Tsai
Short Story, Special Feature, Special Needs

Number One

Dr. Tzemin portrays the binaries of life of an ASD child, his coming of age, and his later life, in this short story, for the Special Feature. A Different...