A Palace in the Desert
Dr. Roopali walks down the memory lane and recollects life of an army brat in a desert. A book extract exclusively for Different Truths. One day, after six months...
And Then This Shraadh
An evocative poem by Dr. Roopali about Pitrapaksha, when we pray, cook, and feed our ancestors, the patriarch’s ghosts that visit us, every year. The women-ghost perhaps are still...
Home is Where the Heart is! – II
Dr. Roopali tells us about the joy of migrant labourers returning home, from the Middle East, after many years. They felt free. An exclusive for Different Truths. At the...
For the Ashes of my Father and the Temples of my Gods*
Dr. Roopali tells us about voyages to distant lands. Her father’s family left Dhaka during his childhood. It stayed with him. A highly decorated Air Force officer, her Rakhi...
Dreaming Dhaka on the River Buri-Ganga
Memories of people, boatmen, food, songs, a river, encapsulates the agony of a migrant father, in this poem, by Dr. Roopali. An exclusive for Different Truths. When you grow...
Hastinapur: An Ancient City of Elephants
Dr. Roopali tells us about the antiquity and splendour of the ancient city, Hastinapur. She meanders through its history, road, and contemporaneity. An exclusive for Different Truths. In Sanskrit,...
Wars Begin in the Minds of Men
A poignant and heart wrenching poem, by Dr. Roopali, about PTSD and sinking into insanity of a wounded soldier, for Different Truths. Rat-a-tat-tat-rat-a-tat-tat the guns go pain shrapnels through...
Eklavya and Guru Dronacharya
The poem, by Dr. Roopali, is about the relationship of the teacher and the taught. A Special Feature, on the eve of the Teachers’ Day, exclusively for Different Truths....
A Riveting Narrative of Love, Loss, Rape & Murders
Dr. Roopali reviews Sujata Sankranti’s debut novel, In the Shadow of Legends, that explores an unjust and harsh feudal system, love, loss, rape and murders with subtility and grace....
Pompeii, my Dream City, was Reduced to Ashes
Dr. Roopali travels several millennia, telling us about the destruction of Pompeii in 79 AD. From the pages of an encyclopedia, through history, she tells us about the pandemic,...