Violent - Different Truths

July 19, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

Sexism and Literature

Payal re-examines classics and popular comics to explore how sexist their content is, exclusively in Different Truths. Recently, I decided to recycle through all the old books that I...

March 8, 2024
Dr. Brajesh Kumar Gupta
Gender, Special Feature

Are we Empowering Women Ensuring Participation in Every Aspect of Life?

Dr. Brajesh discusses women’s empowerment, focusing on improving social, economic, political, and legal strength, ensuring equal rights, and fostering confidence, exclusively for Different Truths. Women – the life-givers, the...

October 1, 2022
Tapati Sinha
Fiction, Humor, Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

A Slice of Divine Life: Live from Kailash

Here’s Tapati’s fictional Durga-Shiva dialogues, full of banter, repartee, wit, and humour, create a laughter riot, an exclusive Special Feature for Different Truths. “Shiva seems too busy these days!...

May 9, 2021
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Environment, Literature, Music, Special Feature, Tribute

Musings of Tagore on Love and Mysticism

A relentlessly seeking, sensitive, intellectual soul, Tagore wanted to drink the elixir of life to the dregs. He found beauty in everything around him. Even the minuscule objects...

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...

September 19, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Advocacy, Development, Human Rights, Mass Media

Media Literacy: A Need for Development of India

There are very few mainstream news channels or news organisations that cover developmental issues with the aim of promoting ‘public service journalism’. Most organisations are lost in their need...

July 29, 2018
IPA Service
Gender, Politics

Shelter Home Rape a Blot on the Reputation of Good Governance of Nitish

The girls, 29 out of 43, were not merely raped by politicians, they were also presented to people in Delhi and other places. These powerful people were running a...

July 3, 2018
Syed Kabir
Governance

The Unnamed Fame

Here’s an evocative short story by a young storyteller, Kabir. He penned this story, during a recent Creative Writing Workshop, conducted by our Editor-in-Chief, Arindam Roy, under the aggies...

June 9, 2018
IPA Service
Studies and Analysis

India among Worst Peaceful Nations: Terror, Instability, Internal Conflicts Affect Status

India is one of the most peaceful nations of the world, it has been declared 28th worst peaceful nation ranking 136th out of 163 nations measured for peacefulness by...

June 9, 2018
IPA Service
Humour, Politics

Tharoor in the Dock Kicks Up a Farrago of Emotions

Here’s a humourous, fictional account of Shashi Tharoor and the pending court case against him, for Different Truths. Jocko Street cut short the overseas call. “Shashi Tharoor is in...

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