The Price of Life
Here’s an evocative real-life account of the survivors during the partition, in 1947. A little lad was celebrating the survival of his mother and him, dancing the Bhangra –...
The Chai that Cheers: The Inside Story
Ruchira tells us the story of tea. She traces the antiquity of this wonder drink and how it spread to other parts of the world. Read more in the...
Are we not all Privileged and Unprivileged in Some Way?
Ritambhara looks at the emptiness and void in the lives of the rich and pits it against the have-nots, in this verse, exclusively for Different Truths. The homeless on...
Translation and the Readers Response Theory – II
Basudeb dwells into the complexities of translation and readers response theory, in the second and final part of his erudite research, exclusively for Different Truths. Translator’ construction of the...
Jeremy Irons Mesmerises in a Semi-Autobiographical Play
Long Day’s Journey into Night, currently being staged at Los Angeles, is a masterful rendition of Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece about the human condition. The British cast is led by...
Amit Shah Using Sampark to Redefine Political Contours
Modi rode to power riding on the support of the urban middle class. But unfortunately, this middle class has turned his bitter critic, notwithstanding every attempt to refurbish his...
Pranab Strikes Big Bang, Congress Hits Black Hole
Pranab Mukherjee did not have to “die first” to go back in time to retell history. He’s 82 and in his memory-cache there is enough of reading of history...
India is the Second Most Unequal Country, Globally
New World Wealth, a Johannesburg-based company, published a report where it claimed that India is the second-most unequal country in the world, with millionaires controlling 54 percent of the...
A Friendship Soured
Hemashri recounts a painful, real-life experience in a fictional voice in the weekly column exclusively for Different Truths. Syamoli still wonders whether colleagues could ever be friends! She wishes...
Facebook in Trouble it phoned up a Decade Ago: Situation Has Got a Lot Trickier for Zuckerberg
The clean-cut CEO of Facebook, social media where friends serenade friends and get high on ‘likes’, was just getting over the profligacy of Cambridge Analytica when the NYT comes...