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January 4, 2025
Shail Raghuvanshi
News in Verse, Poem

New Year Predictions, Disasters, and Cross-Border Love

Shail explores themes of prediction and warning, enduring consequences of past events, and the compelling power of love across borders, exclusively for Different Truths. New Year PredictionsA New Year.Newer...

May 13, 2022
Ashok Bhowmick
Arts, Painting

Coal Miners and the Canary

Coal was used as a common fuel in homes and it also energised the steam engines. Ashok travels from lumps of coals to coal mines. He finds that the canary,...

November 12, 2019
Siddhanjan Ray Chaudhuri
Poem

Thought

Siddhanjan Ray ChaudhuriSiddhanjan, an Engineer by education and a social entrepreneur loves to write from his childhood. The writings are more of what he sees around, trying to depict...

July 11, 2018
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Dissent, Human Rights

The Hunger of Oleg Sentsov

On the 15th of May 2018, one month before Russia celebrated the opening of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Oleg Sentsov began an indefinite hunger strike, which continues today...

June 1, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Much More than Anti-Incumbency behind BJP Rout: Voters Have Changed the Poll Narrative

The results of the by-elections clearly imply that the people, especially the poor, Dalits and minorities across the country have polarised to protect the secular ethics of the country....

March 13, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor, Literature

The Custodian

Soumya shares the highs and lows of hitch-hiking in a truck, after a cancelled flight to Delhi, with two men and a lady. Read more about this adventure, in...

March 8, 2018
IPA Service
Business, Economy, International Relations, Politics

Vietnam is now a Story of Success and Growth

Along the business center of the country, Ho Chi Minh City is today the hub around which Vietnam’s “socialist-oriented market economy” revolves. The oxymoronic nature of that phrase is...

November 4, 2017
Arindam Ghosh
People, Place, Poem

Tagore and Allahabad: Indian Press Published all his Books, from 1908-14, including the Nobel Prize-winning Gitanjali – I

Between 1908 and 1914, Indian Press printed and published all Tagore works and made it popular. The books were printed by Indian Press, Allahabad and sold through Indian Publishing...

August 19, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

An Emblem of the Meteoric Emergence of Arundhati Roy as a Novelist

Basudeb profiles Suzanna Arundhati Roy and critiques her novel, The God of Small Things, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born on 24 November,...

June 17, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Anita Dasai: A Multi-talented Woman Novelist of the Twentieth Century India

Basudeb profiles an important novelist of the 20th century, Anita Desai, a celebrated writer and a polyglot, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Anita Desai (born 24th...