The Heart of Donna Rai – I
Here’s a book extract from the forthcoming novel of Sumita, who writes under the penname ‘Shoam’. It is a coming of age story of a thirteen-year-old girl, set just before...
Ecstatic Dream
An intense sensuous poem by Nandita, in Different Truths. Creeping into the velvet darkness The hour of midnight comes falling softly Where wondrous dreams are created The memories start evoking my...
Prem Kumar Dhumal and Rajendra Singh Rana: Friends turned Foes in a Faceoff in Himachal 2017 Assembly Election
Rana – who was once in the BJP and was considered close to Dhumal – parted ways with the saffron party and won the 2012 assembly polls from Sujanpur...
Vanished – I
Sumita tells us an engrossing story, in two parts. Here’s the first part, a horror-humour, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Dainagri: Police and government officials admit their...
An Eerie Beauty in the Poems of Wani Nazir
Because beauty at its purest is fierce, powerful and terrible captivates the reader. Wani Nazir’s poems have that eerie beauty in them, says Samrudhi, reviewing his book of poems,...
Sultanate of Oman: Pristine Beauty Blended with Modernity
Ruchira takes us on a tour of the Sultanate of Oman, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I am footloose by nature. My fondest dream is to...
Old Habits Die Hard
Thinkers had started eulogising light and darkness and various other elements of nature, a leading factor towards the concept of gods; this thought created stories imagining evils being killed...
That Divine Light
Here’s a poem, by Arun, on Diwali. The poet asks us to light the lamp of divinity, within us, in Different Truths. Light not just these mortal lamps, Ceasing...
Give your Son Good Food was the Advice of a Teacher to his old Student
Arindam, Editor-in-Chief of Different Truths (DT), pays his homage to an exemplary teacher that he met during a train journey, many moons ago. He thanks, Anumita Chatterjee Roy, Managing...
A Comparative Evaluation of the Scholastic Excellence of Nalanda and Al-Qarawiyyin
Nalanda was primarily the Buddhist institution of higher learning, in India. Al-Qarawiyyin has been a centre of Islamic studies, in Morocco. While Nalanda was lost in the ravages of...