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March 3, 2020
Enakshi J
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

A Voice in the Wilderness

Enakshi JEnakshi is an educator, an author and a traveller. She loves to learn. Her writings have appeared in The Speaking Tree (Times of India), Woman’s Era, Alive, Infitithoughts,...

February 27, 2019
Sumana Bhattacharjee
Literature, Poem

Love

Sumana BhattacharjeeSumana Bhattacharjee is an English poetry writer from India . She born and brought up in city Kolkata in a family of teachers . From her childhood she...

February 16, 2019
Sushmita Mukherjee
Literature, Criticism

Giving is Receiving!

We understand something with reference to its opposite. It is the polarity that leads us to the neutrality of unity, says Sushmita. A Different Truths exclusive. Life is so...

September 22, 2018
Jared Akama Onyari
Crime, Environment, Health, Special Feature

Dandora Dumpsite is a Bedroom for the Urban Poor in Nairobi

Dandora is the biggest dumpsite in Nairobi, an estate littered with dirt and overflowing sewers pouring into the drainage system. For most though, it is the high level of...

August 8, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Gender, Governance

How Long Will the Earth, the Holy Cow and a Mother Endure?

‘The earth, the holy cow, and a mother have to endure (Dharti, Maiye, aur Gaye ko sahna parta hein),’ says a Bihar bureaucrat’s insensitivity to women’s suffering in the...

July 14, 2018
Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar

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...

July 11, 2018
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Dissent, Human Rights

The Hunger of Oleg Sentsov

On the 15th of May 2018, one month before Russia celebrated the opening of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Oleg Sentsov began an indefinite hunger strike, which continues today...

July 2, 2018
Manish Kaithwas
Cover Story, Crime, Gender, Human Rights, Legal Issues

When Solutions are worse than Problems: Analysing Amendments in POCSO and Rape Laws

The death penalty of convicts, definitely, does not hold an answer to the burning question of a rise in rape and related crimes. Even Justice Verma Committee has said,...

June 29, 2018
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

Learning is a Habit

Preeyan tells us the value of learning – a process that’s unending, a habit, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Every one of us, at any given...

June 23, 2018
Reetwika Banerjee
Crime, Cyber Security

Learn to Dodge BIN Attack with your Payment Cards

A cybersecurity expert, Reetwika tells us about a very fashionable cybercrime which is raving the global payment card industry with a snowballing trend of monetary scams, especially where the...