book - Different Truths

May 17, 2025
Satjit Singh
Book Review

A Doctor’s Account of Love, Loss, and Letting Go

Satjit reviews Dr Amrinder Bajaj’s “Letting Go” exclusively for Different Truths. This autobiographical fiction reveals a middle-aged Indian couple’s life changed by cancer, spotlighting the caregiver’s compassionate, solitary path....

April 12, 2025
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Dementia, the Demon

An intense social awareness poem on dementia by Sarala, in Different Truths. He was the much sought after engineer in a well-known firm With foreign trips plenty A man...

August 6, 2024
Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-Roy
Poem, Special Feature, Tribute

Two Songs: A Tribute to Tagore

May 19, 2023
Dr Azam Gill
Book, Profile

A Classmate Helped Acquire Coveted Books on Sikh History – III

In the third and final part, the author, Azam, tells us that he borrowed two volumes of Khushwant Singh’s History of the Sikhs and Maharajah Ranjit Singh from Sadaqat, a classmate who had...

May 8, 2023
Chaitali Sengupta
Book Extract, Special Feature

Excerpt: A Bengali Biography of Rabindranath Tagore by His Son

Rathindranath Tagore’s Bengali biography of Rabindranath Tagore is an empathic and nuanced portrait of his father, creating a portrait of his life and fortune — an excerpt from Chaitali’s translation – an...

April 28, 2023
Dr Azam Gill
Book, Profile

Train to Pakistan Changed Young Lives in Lahore – I

Azam and his college friends encountered Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan in 1968 when they discussed books and geopolitics. In the first part of the three-part series, he says he ran away...

January 14, 2023
Dr. Sutanuka Ghosh Roy
Book Review, Poem

‘A Song, Half & Half’ Explores Layers of Love

Dr Sutanuka reviews Prof Nandini Sahu’s love poems in A Song, Half and Half – exclusively for Different Truths. A Song, Half and Half, is a selection of Nandini Sahu’s...

August 13, 2022
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Book Review, Fiction

A Cheery & Optimistic Book by Rita Chhablani

Ruchira reviews Rita Chhablani’s book, We Will Be Together Always and Other Stories, exclusively for Different Truths. Bengaluru-based yoga instructor-cum-English teacher-turned litterateurRita Chhablani is the highly talented proud author of four...

May 21, 2022
Sonali Chanda
Book Review

Some Voices that Speak for Soil and Soul!

Sonali reviews the book, After Grief, by Shikhandin, exclusively for Different Truths. We read various poets/authors from all over the world that sometimes take us to the Utopia or...

March 9, 2022
Anumita Roy
Economy, Gender, Special Feature

Expensive Periods

During a research about taxes, the author’s attention was drawn to the facts of luxury taxes. There she discovered that tampons and pads come under the umbrella of luxury...

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