Sex on the Beach!
Soumya recalls an office event and tells us about what sex on the beach meant. Find out. Strewn with wit and humour, an exclusive for Different Truths. Those days...
Words
An introspective poem, wherein the poet, Kamrun, talks about words and its complex relationship with each of us. An exclusive for Different Truths. Words speak, words lose path to...
My Gift of Valentine!
The doctor’s verdict was a shock. She read the paper given to her; it said how to take care during the first trimester. She was pregnant! Anumita tells us how...
Valentine-Day Blues!
Humourist Soumya shares a fictionalised story of his daughter, Medha, and her Valentine’s Day blues. Here’s a special feature, on the eve of the V-Day, in the weekly column,...
Valentine’s Day: Love, a Humanising Process
We, bring to you a Special Feature on the Valentine’s Day. Arindam thanks the Managing Editor, Anumita, all writers and poets, and the DT Team for making this a wonderful...
Of Desi Valentine’s Day and Spring Festivals
Ruchira narrates the tale of Valentine’s Day and talks of Holi and Saraswati Puja, the two desi Spring festivals. All three have the common root of fertility worship. An...
Love: What They Say!
Shernaz collects quotes on love from writers, poets, scientists, satirists, comedians, actors, singers, artists with gratitude to internet sources. We see the myriad shades of love, as part of Special Feature...
A Very Different Story: No Goodbyes – III
Meeta in her paroxysms of emotions – candid, vulnerable, loving, doubting – emerges with her complexities. In the third part of the novella, by Prof. Nandini, the lovers depart,...
A Shared Patriarchal History Depicted in The Mahabharata
Shivani reviews The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, an interpretation of the epic from Draupadi’s perspective. An exclusive for Different Truths. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is...