Detective Archives - Different Truths

July 19, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

Sexism and Literature

Payal re-examines classics and popular comics to explore how sexist their content is, exclusively in Different Truths. Recently, I decided to recycle through all the old books that I...

November 20, 2023
Tapati Sinha
History & Culture

A Potion to Heal and Kill

Since thousands of years poisons have been both a deadly threat and a protective tool used around the world. Poisons have played a dominant role in our history and...

May 21, 2018
T Mukherjee
Cinema, Interview, Literature, People

Reetwika Banerjee: Five Books, Three Films, 13 Awards makes her a Young Achiever

Reetwika Banerjee, a columnist with Different Truths, is a young achiever. She has won 13 awards for her five books and three films. T Mukherjee interviews her, exclusively for...

February 12, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

MPs Petition Gives New Twist to the Judge Loya Case

In the Supreme Court, Indira Jaising, appearing for Admiral Ramdas, argued that there were sufficient reasons to suspect the alleged death of Judge Loya, including several inconsistencies in documents....

November 5, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Fiction

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...

May 28, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Pankaj Kapoor, Paresh Rawal: Talented Actors, Celebrate Birthdays on May 29 & 30

Two versatile actors, Pankaj Kapoor, remembered for the clumsy detective role, Karamchand, won three National Awards, celebrates his birthday on Monday, May 29. Paresh Rawal, an actor-politician, has his...

May 1, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Balraj Sahni, Anushka Sharma and Satyajit Ray Celebrate Birthdays on May 1 and 2

While Satyajit Ray, the God of Cinema, was born on May 2, Balraj Sahni, who lived the characters he portrayed with realism, shares his birthday with bubbly, bouncy Anushka...

March 27, 2017
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism

Urdu: Today and Tomorrow

Sehar talks about Urdu, the language of emotions. She talks of Ibn Safvi, an Urdu writer from Kareli, a locality in Allahabad, who was acclaimed by Agatha Christie. Here’s...

July 4, 2016
Joyce Yarrow
Poem

The Detective and the Poet

The mystery writer and the poet in Joyce tells us what’s the brief of either in this interesting verse. The detective runs down digs up uncovers exposes and brings to...

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