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December 11, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Gender, Parenting

The Womb Mates

When the kids become parents themselves then only they discover their parents’ awesomeness. The mother-daughter bond strengthens when the daughter becomes a radiant expectant mother. She trusts her mother implicitly...

December 2, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Multiculturalism

Salad Bowl and Americanism

American writers of the Indian sub-continent are women. They are Mary Anne Mohan Raj, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri and Bapsi Sidhwa, Pakistan’s important diasporic writer. In their writings, what...

November 30, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Fate of a Prostitute

An intense and powerful poem, with grotesque imagery, that depicts the life of a prostitute, by Kabir, in Different Truths, Every night haunts her Even when she smiles seductively ...

November 28, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Adventure, Travelogue

Close Encounters of the Final Kind

Soumya tells us how he, with his two daughters, survived parasailing in the rough sea in Goa. Did the close brush with death break them or make them stronger?...

November 27, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Meditation is the Great Teacher

You can’t ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option. You can learn to control your mind, to step outside the endless cycle of...

November 26, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Arts, People, Pottery

Padma Shri Sardar Gurcharan Singh: Father of Studio Pottery in India

Sumita profiles Ceramicist Sardar Gurcharan Singh, a Padma Shri recipient, who pioneered the Delhi Blue Art Pottery, which later became the Delhi Blue Pottery Trust. Read more about the...

November 25, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Cover Story, International Relations, Politics

The US Military: Extended Reach and Challenges in the Face of Budgetary Pressures

The fundamental forces shaping the US military for a long time have been the extended reach and challenges of extended operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, it faces new...

November 17, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Beauty, Health

Sleep and Health – I

Fashionista Shameena tells us about the importance of proper sleep, in the first part of the three-part series on this subject, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths....

November 13, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Raja Yoga Meditation: An Inward Journey to keep us Grounded

Meditation, as we all know, is the journey inwards, a journey of self-discovery, in fact, re-discovery. It is the time taken for quiet reflection and silence. Thus, Raja Yoga meditation...

November 13, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Relationship & Lifestyle

Three Ways to Maintain Your Composure in the Continence of Quotidian Stress

Ritambhara tells us three ways to help us maintain composure in the continence of quotidian stress, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. “Calmness is the cradle of...