A Potion to Heal and Kill
Since thousands of years poisons have been both a deadly threat and a protective tool used around the world. Poisons have played a dominant role in our history and...
A Ritual for Weapons Unite Durga, Khalsa, Indo-Europeans
A war goddess, Durga, and warrior brotherhood, Sikh Khalsa Panth’s ritual veneration and reverence for weapons – where the Indo-European cultures, the divine unites with the profane – elucidates...
Beautiful and Peaceful
An evocative poem that sees the cruelty of modern times against the beauty of nature, by Dr. T Ashok, exclusively for Different Truths. Oh Earth and nature! Both are...
Despite Record of Trump, There are Positives from the Korea Summit
Many of the voices on television and in the opinion pages are howling that Trump gave away the store in his meeting with the North Korean leader in Singapore...
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...
German Industry Divided on Links with Iran: Social Democrats, Left Hit by Factional Fights
Only days after Netanyahu’s press conference attack on Iran, Trump tore up the U.S. copy of the Iran nuclear agreement. Only hours after that Israel launched its heaviest missile...
More Rhetoric than Action in US-China Trade Negotiations: India Should Lie Low Without Taking Sides
The trade negotiations between the two countries ended last week, with China declaring its honest intent to increase US imports and the world breathed a sigh of relief that...
Redesigning Indo-Russian Strategic Friendship: Perceptible Change in Tone and Tenor of Modi
Russia had nursed the feeling that India will speak out its mind on the US sanction against Moscow. The US had imposed the sanctions earlier this year under CAATSA...
Worry for NDA as Modi-Shah Duo no Longer Unassailable: Congress-JD(S) Victory in Karnataka Galvanises Opposition
The contest in Karnataka, the BJP apparently thought that a barnstorming campaign by Modi would be enough to enable the party to sail through. That it nevertheless had slight...
A Story of Courage and Valour: Veer Madrassis Fought the Odds of Sub-zero Temperatures at Siachen
At Siachen, at 5 am, on February 3, 2016, the 400-ft-high, Bana ice-wall collapsed on the 10 Veer Madrassis of 19 Madras (including a nursing assistant). Led by Braveheart...