Alphabet Archives - Different Truths

March 8, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
Gender, People, Special Feature

A Knife for Life!

Shail’s short story, a special feature for International Women’s Day, explores the parallels between divorcee Ria and widow Shanta Bai and how they inspire each other, an exclusive for...

June 16, 2022
Dr. Kulmeet Singh Soin
Humour, Potpourri

Diets, Alcohol and Millionaires

Here’s a tongue-in-cheek account on how our diets and alcohol affect our longevity, and how the rich and the famous lived and died, by Dr. Kulmeet. He dispels many...

March 13, 2022
Nilakshi Roy
Gender, Short Story, Special Feature

…And Two Women Suffered

She was a slim, tall, elegant woman, too pretty to be a cook in our house, but as she was not very young, my mother kept her immediately. She...

September 5, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Education & Career, Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Feature

The Story of a Boy Going to School

Humourist Soumya tells us about the ordeals of going to school, as a little child, replete with black humour, as part of the special feature, in the weekly column,...

September 5, 2017
Lily Swarn
Poem

The Valiant Ones

Lily pays tribute to teachers in a poem, as a special feature, in Different Truths. They are the valiant ones Teaching life by leading Holding hands as toddlers ...

September 1, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Criticism, Potpourri

An Ode to Hinglish

Languages evolve and transform with time and usage (read misuse and abuse too). Ruchira tells us about the advent of Hinglish, a new kind of lingo, where English has...

July 28, 2016
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

The Alphabet of Love

An intense, erotic prose-poem by Deeya. Sunsets have stories to unfurl I guess – each sunset one of its kind – it’s the quiet lilt in the far horizon...