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July 26, 2021
Tutu Dutta
Oral Traditions, Special Feature

The Girl Who Married a Stranger

Tutu recounts a popular folktale from the Calabar region of Nigeria. It’s about a stunning young woman, Afiong. She had bright eyes and velvety smooth skin, the colour of...

May 12, 2021
Dr. Partha Banerjee
Dance, Language, Migration & Diaspora, Multiculturalism, Music, People, Place, Special Feature, Theatre, Tribute

One Last Tagore Birthday before My Death

A Diaspora, Dr. Partha shares the agony of a Bengali far away from his homeland. He confesses, there are quite a few other Bengali immigrants both from Bangladesh...

May 16, 2020
Bushra Alvi Razzack
History & Culture, Religion

The Holy Quran: The Gift of Ramadan and Laylat al Qadr

Bushra Alvi RazzackBushra Alvi Razzack, Founder of Delhi by Verse, loves weaving words, emotions and opinions while creating rhythm and imagery to make sense. Apart from being therapeutic, writing...

November 18, 2019
Basudeb Chakraborti
Poem

The Scarlet Letter

Basudeb Chakraborti

September 10, 2019
Soma Bhowmik
Literature, Poem

Angels Exist

Soma BhowmikSoma Bhowmik wears many hats. She is attached with the creative world as an artist. Her subject is oil painting on canvas. She is an actress and an...

August 13, 2019
Rupa Rao
Literature, Poem

Perfect Rhythm

Rupa RaoRupa is an army child who schooled in 9 towns in 12 years. She graduated from Jabalpur; did MBA, and Law from Mumbai. Travelling, learning about cultures, imbibing differences,...

July 14, 2018
Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar

Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure

Bhaskaranand reviews the poetry of U Atreya Sharma and critiques his book Sunny Rain-n-Snow, exclusively for Different Truths. Sunny Rain-n-Snow is a beautiful folio of sixty-three poems well-wrought by U...

July 5, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Food, History & Culture

The Enchanting Journey of Coffee from Ethiopia to the Rest of the World

Ruchira documents the journey of coffee, from the arid tracts of Ethiopia to Yemen and Turkey. It then reached Europe and the USA. Coffee is not just a drink....

June 12, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

South India with its Polite People was a Pleasant Shock

Carefree and happy-go-lucky student days in Delhi came to an end when Soumya received an appointment letter. He had to report to the Madras office. He shares the juicy...

March 27, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

Trump Brings World near Another World War: New NSA Bolton Advocates Attack on Iran and North Korea

Pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war with the appointment of Bolton is apparently totally acceptable—provided the cash keeps flowing. H.R. McMaster is approximately the 60th person...