Dawn Archives - Page 3 of 3 - Different Truths

September 28, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Nostalgia, Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Feature

Durga Pujo in Delhi: Then and Now

Ruchira remembers Durga Pujo of her childhood days. She tells us about the slow and sure changes that are taking place, for various reasons, in the celebrations. Read more...

August 22, 2017
Poornima Laxmeshwar
Poem

A Letter to You

Here’s a poem about love and identity, by Poornima, in Different Truths. Our dear unborn I wish we could breathe a breath somewhere To string together the violet stems...

June 29, 2017
Samrudhi Dash
Poem

Petrichor Dreams

Women are different in many ways, yet bound to a web of patriarchy. They knit dreams and rise again like a valiant warrior after every fall. Here’s is a...

June 3, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Cinema

Bimal Roy Challenged the Taboos through his Cinema of Social Realism

Samina, a movie buff, talks about the life and times of the celebrated filmmaker, Bimal Roy. His cinema of social realism challenged the taboos that gripped the society then....

May 21, 2017
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, History & Culture, Politics

Kannur: Where Beauty and Death go Hand in Hand

The agrarian peasant-landlord clashes that turned feudalism on its head in Kerala provided a fertile hunting ground for Communists. And this erstwhile fief of the12th Century Hindu Kolathiri Rajahs...

March 8, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Tehmina Durrani: A Champion of Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan

Tehmina Durrani arrests worldwide attention immediately after the publication of her first novel Blasphemy. Her second novel My Feudal Lord exposes the miserable position of a woman pitted against the patriarchal background...

January 10, 2017
Eswar Anandan
People

Losar: Tibetan New Year

The history of Losar dates back to the pre-Buddhism era of Tibet. Bon religion was widely practiced in Tibet before the advent of Buddhism in Tibet. During the winter season, it...

January 1, 2017
Neelam Dadhwal
Poem, Special Feature

A New Year Soiree

A poem dedicated to the New Year, in the Special Feature on New Year, exclusively in Different Truths. A night when ushers into new dawn tripping on the past without exhaustion,...

May 1, 2016
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Cover Story, Dissent, Subaltern & Dalits

Towards Dawn: Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Brick Kilns

Lenin takes us through the sordid and macabre accounts of contemporary slavery in brick kilns, based on actual accounts of the hapless victims. Driven by hunger and starvation, many children die...

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