Chores - Different Truths

May 7, 2025
Dr. Molly Joseph
Poem

The mundane.

Dr. Molly’s poem is about the chores of a summer morning, exclusively for Different Truths. Outside the heat burns leaves shrivelling up.this summer a hot furnace...morning!pasted smileschewed up choressugarless...

February 19, 2024
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

How to Deal with Your Boss?

Preeyan’s article explores “boss issues” and provides strategies for cultivating a positive dynamic, exclusively for Different Truths. Any corporate structure, however flat, claims to have a hierarchy within the...

October 4, 2023
Anumita Roy
Relationship & Lifestyle

Involve Children in Household Chores

There is a common feeling of guilt of the parents to involve their children to help out needs to be stopped, as children are part of the family. There is...

April 18, 2023
Smriti Maheshwari
Relationship & Lifestyle

The Delicious Dangers of Online Romance: When and Where to stop?

The Internet has opened the possibility of online romance. It’s heady. Gives an instant high and is deliciously dangerous. Here Smriti, based on her interactions with some of her...

July 4, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, People

A Lesson on Life Management

Appearances are often deceptive. Hemashri tells us the story of Gitali, a cleaner in a government office. At a young age, life taught her much more than the books...

February 3, 2018
Ayub Khawar
Poem

I have to do a Lot of Chores

An inward-looking, poignant verse, by Ayub, for Different Truths. Someone plucked out my lashes, And twisted them into a cord, Then fastened my dreams, With the same cord, And...

February 2, 2018
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

What is Out of the Box Thinking?

Ideas are building blocks for change and when you are able to implement these ideas and measure the change you are close to becoming capable of “out of the...

October 12, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Science & Technology

Buy Leisure Time with Technology

Bangalore-based Farheen tells us how technology takes away all the drudgery of household works, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Remember the times you have cringed thinking...

October 7, 2017
Shabir Ahmad Mir
Books, Criticism

Despite Dual Handicap The Broken Home and Other Stories is Immensely Readable

Shabir reviews Lopamudra Banerjee’s book, The Broken Home and Other Stories, exclusively in Different Truths. Despite a dual handicap, her translation did not leave a bitter taste. However, he...

July 16, 2017
Nikita Goel
Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

The Pros and Cons of Raising a Child in India

Nikita talks about the pros and cons of raising a child in India vis-à-vis the US (and other western countries). Read more in the regular column, exclusively in Different...

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