Love is Not Love Till you give it Away!
Hemashri pays tribute to a former IAS officer, who was also a pro bono lawyer. His immense love and compassion for others set him apart. In him, she found...
Fake News: The Octopus in the Newsroom
The hard fact these days of impact journalism and paid news is that perception managers run newsrooms, not newspersons; and journalists get to become ‘made guys’ when they’re promoted...
Creamy Layer Turns Messy and Uncanny: Supreme Court Bench Skips Most Contentious Issues
The decision by a vacation bench of the Supreme Court in a case about reservation in promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes last week may not have been...
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...
Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Vision of Akrura – LXXV
Nilanjana recounts the tale of Akrura’s vision, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. “Akrura was so lucky that he got to ride Balarama and Krishna!” Parikshit observed....
Foolhardiness: Government Tries to Pull the Wool over the Eyes of People
The problem with high retail prices is due to the fact that the government treats petrol and diesel as cash cows to make money. The retail price of petrol...
Time up for Undemocratic Choreography of BJP
The problem with such stage-managed shows is the fostering of an illusion of control and invincibility, which are the hallmarks of the Modi dispensation. These are standard techniques of...
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...
Marxist Scholars are Giving Big Focus on Environment
Marx and Engels were well aware of the wider, environmental aspects of human “conquest” over nature. And Marxists today have a good deal to say about the environment. An...
Can Pranab Mukherjee be the Next PM of a Non-Congress, Non-BJP Alliance?
Patnaik and Mamata are Pranab’s left and right hands in the alliance formation, and if Pranab with all his organisational and other skills succeeds in putting together a winning...