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April 11, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Cover Story, History & Culture, Travel & Food

A Tour into the Fearsome, Doomed World of the Freemantle Prison

The Freemantle Prison is the only World Heritage listed building in Western Australia. Built in the 1850’s by the prisoners themselves, it was used as a barracks for convicts...

March 11, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Did Manto Suffer any Crisis of Muslim Identity?

Here’s a critical analysis of Saadat Hasan Manto’s three short stories, Toba Tek Singh, A Girl from Delhi and A Tale of 1947, by Basudeb, to understand the crisis...

March 7, 2017
Alka Nigam
Gender, Special Feature

The New Women Poets

Women theorists agree that the literature of women depends on biological, social, psychological facts that govern her existence. In fact, if one is asked to name a single most characteristic feature...

March 2, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, Relationship & Lifestyle

Rights of the Elderly: Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens

More and more couples are working full time, families have become smaller and nuclear, migration, and consumerism have become the order of the day. At the same time, life expectancy of...

February 20, 2017
Anumita Roy
Relationship & Lifestyle

Coping with Personal Tragedy: When I Lost a Heartbeat!

How do mothers deal with the loss of a heartbeat (an unborn child)? The agony is unbearable. It wrenches out the heart of the mother. She feels guilty and...

January 16, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Education & Career, Governance

Bihar Education Budget: High on Inclusion, Low on Per-Student Spending

With one-fifth of its state budget earmarked for school education and allocating provisions for the most marginalised children, Bihar has shown positive intent, while the state lags behind in per-student spending...

December 29, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

Resurgence

A voice that cannot be stifled, a protest that breaks shackles is the poetic voice of Lopamudra. Her protest poem envisions change. Here’s her firebrand poem for Different Truths. Every single...

December 20, 2016
Maya Khandelwal
Poem

My World

As a poet, Maya, has the capacity to create a world that’s her own – away from the divisions and dissensions, the mundane existence. Here’s an evocative verse, in Different...

June 29, 2016
Geethanjali Dilip
Poem

The Frame

Geethanjali gives us a glimpse of ‘not such a perfect world’, a slice of urban life in this poem. In not such a perfect world, Let you and I...

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