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October 27, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Poem

The Tadpoles Did Not See

Here’s a poem by Sumita that celebrates nature, the playful innocence of girls, memory, and identity, in Different Truths. The surface rippled, Three pairs of feet plopped in And...

October 23, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Gender, Law & Order

From Practice to Perfect: Sex with Minor Wife Criminalised by the SC

In a landmark judgement, the Apex Court ruled out the exception u/s 375(2) of the IPC as being unconstitutional, stating that if any husband engages in sexual intercourse with...

October 22, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Cover Story, Environment, History & Culture, Religion

Old Habits Die Hard

Thinkers had started eulogising light and darkness and various other elements of nature, a leading factor towards the concept of gods; this thought created stories imagining evils being killed...

October 22, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Education & Career, Fairs & Festivals, History & Culture, People, Politics, Tourism

Festival Lights in Singapore, Blotting History, Stoned to Study, Lost and Found

Shail talks of four news, in the last week, in her regular column. Diwali-themed trains, a station and five buses in Singapore to run until October 31. Taj Mahal...

October 6, 2017
Sarika Sarkar Das
Food

Of Durga Puja, Wedding and Yummy Radhaballabhi

Radhaballabhi makes Sarika nostalgic. She recalls foodie Bengalis enjoy these and other eatables during Durga Puja. Interestingly, it brings back memories of her wedding. Read more, including its recipe,...

October 5, 2017
Lovita J. R. Morang
Poem

Ten Shades of Forbidden Clay: Nishiddho Pallis

Lovita pays her homage to the goddesses, Durga, Kali and Laxhmi, as we worship the goddess of wealth, today. Here’s an intense poem, a social commentary, exclusively in Different...

September 28, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Poem, Religion, Science & Technology

Annual Nirvana

Rita’s poem shakes us from the complacency and the taken for granted attitude. Here’s the sensibility of a compassionate social activist, in verse, as a special feature, in Different...

September 25, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Gender, History & Culture, Politics

Can we Achieve Perfect Harmony through Gender Justice?

Kolkata-based young lawyer, Vedatrayee, dwells on the subject of gender justice. She examines it socio-politically, in the historical perspective, to challenge established biases, in the weekly column. A Different...

September 20, 2017
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

It is you

A poem by Elsy that celebrates the innocence of babies, in Different Truths. The tiny tot saw her snapshot at month three and cooed, ‘look, baby brother!’. Mom said,...

September 18, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Gender, Human Rights, Law & Order

Triple Talaq: Then and Now

Vedatrayee, a Kolkata-based young lawyer, takes a hard look at the issue of triple talaq, with a historical perspective. Read more in her regular column, exclusively in Different Truths....