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October 18, 2025
Arindam Roy
Short Story

The Dancing Lamp

Childhood and teenage are magical years. Two teenagers, Arun and Gaurishankar, witness a spooky incident. The midsummer nights’ eerie event scared them. Despite their fears, they recorded the details of the...

March 11, 2022
Different Truths Poets
Gender, Poem, Special Feature

Still I Rise: IWD 2018, Anthology of Poems

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2018, Different Truths Poets present an anthology of poems, celebrating the woman, in paroxysms of emotions, enigmatic and multilayered, like...

July 6, 2021
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

A Foodie Cooks his Goose

Here’s an interesting account by Soumya, a humourist, on cooking, exclusively on Different Truths. I am a foodie. My girth hints at it. I take a keen interest in...

June 5, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, Riots & Violence

Shiv Sena-BJP Rift Foments Communal Tension

The three wards of the old city in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, witnessed a mob violence in which houses and shops were set aflame, and vehicles were damaged. There were two...

May 14, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Mutual Consent Paramount in Adult Relationships: Latest Supreme Court Decision is of Great Significance

If to exercise the basic rights of choice and intimate relationships, one has to knock on the doors of the highest court of the country every time, then the...

April 11, 2018
IPA Service
Education & Career, Health, Parenting

Exam Pressures are Driving School Kids to Suicide in Britain: New Study Mentions Mental Health Issues of Students

According to a new study published by the National Education Union, 81 percent of secondary teachers report having detected self-harming among pupils. Forty-nine percent said mental-health issues had led...

March 23, 2018
IPA Service
People, Potpourri

The Lie That Cambridge Analytica can Sway FB Indians: 90 percent of Personal Data are Fake

FB boasts it can influence more than half the human population. Maybe. But not all the personal data of 2 billion human beings locked in FB is authentic data....

October 15, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Fiction

Friends Online

We introduce a new weekly column from this Sunday. Chennai-based Sumita tells us a story about online friendship, exclusively in Different Truths. September 11 Monday, 09:45 pm Aryan Chelvam...

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,...

August 14, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion, Special Feature

The Story of Krishna-Astami

On the occasion of Janma-ashtami – variously known as Krishna-Ashtami or Gokul-Ashtami – Nilanjana retells the story of the birth of Krishna. This sampurna avataar (complete incarnation) was born with all...

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