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Humour

October 9, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

Politeness: To Be or Not to Be!

Politeness has many nuances and hues. Soumya explains what politeness cost his father-in-law in the hands of his nephew-in-law. And later, the price that polite nephew-in-law had to pay,...

September 18, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Travel & Food

Thrills and Perils of Travelling Light

Humourist Soumya tells us about the thrills and perils of travelling light, in the weekly column. A Different Truths exclusive. From my student days, I had got addicted to...

July 10, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Sports

Matching up to England and Bowling out the Raj

With the current India-England series on, Soumya recounts the life and times of his grandfather, a civil servant of the Raj, and his glee when India defeated England in...

July 3, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Travel & Food

Jambo: Welcome to the Endless Grasslands

We drove on through the Ngorang Ngora highlands and into the Savannah, where the great animal migration was gathering steam. We encountered thousands of herbivores from the gigantic giraffe...

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...

May 1, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Travel & Food

Cooped up in Kodaikanal

Continuing with the backpacking trip in the South of India in the last column, Soumya tells us about a trip to Kodaikanal, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different...

April 2, 2018
IPA Service
Humour, Politics

Jai Ramji Ki to All in Cambridge Analytica: Truth of Wylie about What Indians Eat, Drink and Die For

Seventy years after the British left India, ending its colonial trip in the subcontinent, it was left to a Canadian expat in Britain to tell “we the people of...

March 20, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

Marriage Blues

Our humourist tells us about two married couples in a train journey, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I was on a Calcutta-bound Rajdhani when a fascinating...

January 30, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

A Nude Interlude!

Soumya, our humourist, recounts a real-life story, an incident from the life of his maternal great-grandfather, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. This is a story of...

January 23, 2018
Dr. Preeti Talwar
Humour, Potpourri

What it is to be a Wife of a Geologist!

Here’s a tongue-in-cheek account by Dr. Preeti about what it’s to be a geologist’s wife. A humourous account of a rocky relationship, exclusively for Different Truths. “Civilisation exists by...

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