Drinking Archives - Different Truths

July 31, 2025
Farheen Viquas
Science & Technology

Technology is Omnipresent

Bangalore-based Farheen tells us how technology helps control temperatures effectively. Here are three necessities in our daily lives – it helps in keeping our tea or coffee warm, innovative...

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...

June 3, 2023
Sumita Dutta
Fiction

Journeys Lost

Here’s a story by Sumita, about a journey, exclusively in Different Truths. Dr. Sen’s house was in a state of excitement. His niece was bringing their grandnephews to meet...

February 28, 2023
Sehar Siddiqi
Education & Career, Gender, Special Feature

Question Marks that Still Haunt the Girl-child Education in India

Many girls are enrolled in schools but they never reach the classroom. Sehar details the reasons for low percentage of the girl-child education, which stops them from empowerment, for Different Truths....

June 16, 2022
Dr. Kulmeet Singh Soin
Humour, Potpourri

Diets, Alcohol and Millionaires

Here’s a tongue-in-cheek account on how our diets and alcohol affect our longevity, and how the rich and the famous lived and died, by Dr. Kulmeet. He dispels many...

June 18, 2019
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

Drinking with Dad

Soumya MukherjeeSoumya Mukherjee is an alumnus of St Stephens College and Delhi School of Economics. He earns his daily bread by working for a PSU Insurance company, and lectures...

January 15, 2019
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Oh, this Beer …

Sarala tells us about the plight of an alcoholic, who lost everything to his beer, in the verse, for Different Truths. I curse myself every day Why I started...

September 24, 2018
Johanna Climenko
Cover Story, History & Culture, Multiculturalism, People, Special Feature

Travelling the World in NYC: Conversations with Cab Drivers and Other Multi-Cultural Excursions

The interplay of different cultures – read multiculturalism – opens the horizons to a person, who is compassionate and deeply observant. As a Dance/Movement Therapist, nonverbal communication is the...

September 22, 2018
Swati Kumar
History & Culture, Religion, Special Feature

Togo: The Largest Voodoo Market in the World

Togo’s capital city of Lomé is the birthplace of the largest Voodoo market in the world – a kind of super supply store for fetishes, charms and anything else...

September 21, 2018
Rupa Rao
Relationship & Lifestyle

I Feel the Essence of My Doting Dad

It is eleven years to lunar date since his larger than life colorful persona was amongst us, yet his essence, words, royal laughter, humour linger stronger every day for...

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