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...
Using Home Cameras to Monitor the Elderly
Rita tells us how technology can be used to take care of the elderly. Patient Safety day is on September 17. A Special Feature exclusively for Different Truths. We’ve...
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,...
How Fiction and Lives Crisscrossed Twice!
Life and fiction crisscrossed twice. Soumya tells us about a young couple, his readers and fans, who, inspired by his elopement many moons ago, did an encore. One of...
Being a Desi in America
America has been the crucible, a veritable melting pot, of many cultures. The south Asian community – Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans – are the Desis. They take their...
My Tryst with the Spry Squirrel
An evocative poem about a squirrel, with reference in the Ramayana, exclusively for Different Truths I watched the spry squirrel scamper away hearing my footfall, its ear turned to...
Philomela: Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow
A women-centric protest poem, by Dr. Roopali, exclusively for Different Truths. If you cut off a woman’s tongue like they did the other day in that dusty dirty town...
An Overview of the Libraries in Ghana
Mahua gives an overview of the libraries and the library system of Ghana. This is in no way an exhaustive study of libraries in Ghana. Libraries across the world...
My Little King, A-Wooo
Dr. Tzemin tells us a story of the biggest bull in the village, A-Wooo, fit to lead the herd of the cattle. How it became a king, was lost....
Animated Joys
An intense woman-centric poem, by Nibedita, wherein she searches her identity, exclusively for Different Truths. They ask me, what do I do the entire day? Their eyes questioning my...