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March 12, 2022
Dr. Tripti Sharan
Gender, History & Culture, Religion, Short Story, Special Feature

The Flickering Diyas

Tripti retells the Ramayana from Sita’s point of view. Here’s Sita’s agony that was perhaps never told in a patriarchal epic, as the special feature on International Women’s Day, exclusively for...

March 12, 2022
Different Truths Poets
Poem, Special Feature

An Anthology of Poems Celebrating Womanhood

We are pleased to present An Anthology of Poems Celebrating Womanhood, as part of the International Women’s Day (IWD) Theme that we, in Different Truths are featuring, spread over three days,...

March 11, 2022
Different Truths Poets
Gender, Poem, Special Feature

Still I Rise: IWD 2018, Anthology of Poems

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2018, Different Truths Poets present an anthology of poems, celebrating the woman, in paroxysms of emotions, enigmatic and multilayered, like...

December 29, 2021
Sumita Dutta
Fiction, Special Feature

Trifle

Here are four micro-fictions – Air, The Peacock Strut, Helmets, and Repartee – presenting four slices of life, Trifle, by Sumita, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths....

November 4, 2021
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Myth, Religion

The Enigma that is Maa Kali!

Ruchira demystifies the dark goddess, Maa Kali, worshipped on Diwali. An exclusive for Different Truths. For millions of Hindus on the subcontinent and across the globe, Deepavali or Diwali...

September 15, 2021
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

The Attic: Reliving its Story

An evocative poem about the attic and old age from Deeya Robbed she stands, bearing scars all over her putrid skin; dust-settled fungi-smeared; stale from the air over yester-years...

May 10, 2021
Nilakshi Roy
Fiction, Films, Special Feature, Tribute

Tagore, Ray and Basu: The Broken Nest, Charulata, and Stories from Rabindranath Tagore

There are many admirers of Satyajit Ray’s film, Charulata (1964), which is often seen as a retelling of the story of Rabindranath Tagore’s own time spent with his elder brother...

May 9, 2021
Dr. Navodita Pande
Criticism, Poem, Short Story, Special Feature, Tribute

Remembering Tagore

In all of his creative works, what touched Navodita is the poignancy and the deep feeling of emotion that flow with his thoughts – the sensitivity, the words...

May 9, 2021
Michele Baron
Poem, Short Story, Special Feature, Tribute

firefly

An enigmatic short story, by Michele, as a tribute to Tagore, a Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. “I really cannot understand,” her fingers pounded out on the keypad,...

November 29, 2019
Ritamvara Bhattacharya
Poem

Frozen Bleeding

Ritamvara BhattacharyaRitamvara Bhattacharya writes from a darling’s heart, Darjeeling. She believes in what Sylvia Plath said, “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have...

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