Courtyard Archives - Different Truths

May 31, 2025
Atrayee Bhattacharya
Fiction, Special Feature

Locked with Lantern and a Good Luck

Atrayee tells us an intriguing story about a NGC team, caught in the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict and a kidnapping. What happened to Twisha? Here’s a literary thriller, exclusively for Different...

December 23, 2021
Anika Ghei
Fiction, Special Feature

The Pious Infidel

Intolerance and hatred have existed with its opposite in the public spheres. Here’s Anika’s historical short fiction, in the regular column, exclusively in Different Truths. He was Nizam to us....

January 28, 2018
IPA Service
Dissent, Gender

Madhya Pradesh Women Fight Closure of Boozing Yards

Maintaining law and order situation is also far easier for police so long as ahatas are there, contended these women as they can reach anywhere easily if a fight...

December 26, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

Memorable Meals I Have Had

Humourist Soumya tells us of the many adventures of his, in the company of others, between 1983 and 2013. He mixes humour, food, drinks, fancy-free, and footloose bohemian life...

December 17, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Book Extract, Fiction

The Heart of Donna Rai: Police

Here’s the third and final part of the three-part book extract from the forthcoming novel, The Heart of Donna Rai by Sumita, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different...

September 8, 2017
Arindam Roy
Business, Opinion, Religion

Durga and her Entourage in a Jawed Habib Salon: Reverence, Irreverence, Trolls, Erotica and the Liberal Hindu Mind

There’s public outrage on the social media about the newspaper advertisement of Goddess Durga’s family dolling themselves in a Jawed Habib salon. The celebrity hairstylist is being trolled on...

July 18, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

And a Chipko is Born…

Humourist Soumya tells us how a Chipko was born in their home. He shares the experiences with a young girl from the hills and her love for nature, weeds,...

July 13, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Baby Steps – XXXIV

Kamsa’s ally Trinavarta had come to Gokula looking for the little child. He assumed the form of a whirlwind. Child Krishna vanquished a mighty asura for the third time....

June 29, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Putana – XXXII

Nilanjana recounts the tale of Putana and how she was slain by child Krishna, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Putana was loyal to her king, Kamsa....

June 27, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

The Wedding

Humourist Soumya takes a dig at the cross-cultural wedding of a Bong and a Punjabi. The cultural differences were sharply magnified to the woes of each side – later...

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