Goddess Lakshmi Bless my Home!
Anumita takes a trip down memory lane and recalls the Lokhi (Lakshmi) puja at her Kolkata home. She tells us how the Goddess is a part of everyday discourse...
Number One
Dr. Tzemin portrays the binaries of life of an ASD child, his coming of age, and his later life, in this short story, for the Special Feature. A Different...
Milk Man Yogi Cannot Smell Coffee
There are cow-ambulances to take hurt cattle to hospital. But ‘man’? His daughter gets gang-raped by people linked to a Yogi MLA and allegedly by the MLA, too, and...
Loss of Face of Zuckerberg is a Gain for the Politician: BJP, Cong Propaganda Machines Engaged in Confusing
Cambridge Analytica changed all that. Zuckerberg failed his ‘friends’. The middleman was back in currency, shaping crowd-perception and then passing the altered crowd-information to interested parties. The Homo Digitalis...
Gorakhpur-Phulpur Shows both Modi and Rahul Their Place: Future Politics May Hinge Around SP, BSP
The acclaimed election machine of Modi and Shah broke down completely in Gorakhpur and Phulpur. And Yogi Adityanath after a year in power in UP was being told he’s...
Budgetary Rural Push not enough to Deal with Farm Distress
The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has given no sops to the middle classes by offering any concessions in the income tax rates. The industrial sector has been assured of...
A Scaffolding of Love
Here’s an intense and powerful women-centric poem by Mamta that celebrates her love despite countless sufferings, for Different Truths. Throbbing with exhaustion and pain Cramped muscles ache for rest...
Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Krishna and Baka – VLIV
Nilanjana retells the story of Krishna and Bakasura, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Adept in concealing their divinity and prowess, Balarama and Krishna continued walking around...
Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: From Gokula to Vrindavan – XLII
Nilanjana recounts the story of the migration from Gokula to Vrindavan, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The gopas in Gokula were not blind to the series...
Does Diversity of India Require Structural Changes to Manage Ethnic and Religious Tussles?
The Indian party system is more or less based on the caste system and religious affiliations; political parties tend to support their ethnic and religious affiliations/ideology, thus creating an...