Celebrations Archives - Different Truths

May 9, 2026
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

Waiting for Network…

This week’s fantasy fiction by Tapan is an interesting sci-fi, with engrossing twists and turns, exclusively on Different Truths. “Will you call the verses I write my off-springs?” In...

April 21, 2025
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, History & Culture

India through Her Stamps

Sreelata tells us about the journey of India through her stamps. With the first General Post Office being opened, in 1774, in Calcutta, followed by Madras (1778) and Bombay (1792)...

January 14, 2025
Monika Ajay Kaul
Mythology, Religion

Focus: Cosmic and Agricultural Significance of Makar Sankranti

Monika discusses Makar Sankranti, a festival celebrating the Sun’s northward journey, symbolising spiritual growth from ignorance to wisdom and darkness to light, exclusively for Different Truths. “तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं भर्गो देवस्य...

June 28, 2024
Anumita Roy
Multiculturalism, Potpourri

Fifteen Customs that are Distinctly American!

Anumita lists fifteen customs that are very different and stand out as American tradition/norms, which most foreigner find strange, initially. Slowly one understands and becomes a part of the flow, in...

April 9, 2024
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Alienation

An evocative poem from Sarala wherein she describes the dark, gloomy world of depression and alienation, exclusively for Different Truths. Why was Sheila alienated From the society? Give me...

November 3, 2023
Sukanya Basu Mallik
Cover Story, Fairs & Festivals, Rituals & Practices, Special Feature

Festivals of Lights from Around the World

Most cultures and peoples celebrate the festivals of lights. Anumita reveals many traditions, which are basically same. ‘Tamso ma jotirgamaya’ of the Hindus find echo in the Biblical ‘Lead symbolises ignorance...

March 7, 2023
Sonali Chakraborty
Fairs & Festivals, Food

If it is Holi it has to be Gujiya!

In the US, all celebrations are on the weekend, Holi too. Sonali shares the recipe of baked Gujiyas, the traditional sweet pastry that is served during Holi. Though it...

November 11, 2022
Abhilasha Trivedi
Food, Potpourri

A Sweet Tale

Childhood and adolescence seem to be another country. Our identities are formed then. Simple things like what we ate or wore, the places we visited, become landmarks in our...

September 30, 2022
Sumita Dutta
Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

Durga Puja: A Five-day Extravaganza of Food, Feast, Fun, and Frolic

Eyes closed, each of us disappears into our own consciousness where we perhaps see a beloved departed parent or remember a past when they stood above us uttering these...

March 8, 2022
Michele Baron
Gender, Special Feature

chains, choices, chances, change … considering Women’s Day

A newborn does not care about the mother’s credentials, caste, class, culture, creed or colour — only that the mother’s arms are strong, her hands supportive and gentle, that there is...