essence Archives - Different Truths

February 26, 2024
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, People, Place

Calcutta Cameo: Of Fetidness and Joy!

Humourist Soumya presents two snapshots of Calcutta as he saw it, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. During a recent visit to my hometown – the city...

January 25, 2024
Ipsita Ganguli
Poem

Metamorphosis

An intense and powerful woman-centric verse by Ipsita, for Different Truths. This world around meHold me up; Turns me roundPulls and pushes me downAnd just as I start frowning...

January 17, 2024
Leena Thampi
Poem

Freezing the Essence of Words to Ignite Beautiful Souls

In Leena’s evocative poem for Different Truths, silence becomes the compass amidst life’s noise, where true words glow brightest from the soul’s quiet depths. Choose to be silent in...

October 12, 2023
Sailasree Potay
Poem

Misfit

A sense of belongingness keeps us rooted. Some people, though present physically in this world are absent mentally. They are the misfits, feels, Sailasree, in this verse, in Different...

July 13, 2023
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Tranquillity / Life is an Ordeal

Here are two poems by Sarala, in Different Truths. The first poem, Tranquility, is about seeking and attaining. The second poem, Life is an Ordeal, shows what poverty and...

June 25, 2021
Anumita Roy
Food

If it is the Apple Harvest Season, it has to be Apple Cake!

It’s fall, the harvest season of apples, in the US. Apples flood the market in every size, shape, and colour. In the grocery, stores these fruits fill up counters...

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...

June 23, 2018
Sushmita Mukherjee
Criticism

Hi Friend, Hyphen!

Sushmita dwells on the small dash, the hyphen. Other than its grammatical functions, it revealed something unique to this scribe. Read more, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different...

May 14, 2018
IPA Service
Exploitation, Marxism, Subalterns

Marxism is a Living Science 200 Years Later: Its Revolutionary Ideas are Guide to Action

Marxism is a revolutionary theory. Without it, protests against capitalist exploitation and oppression are limited to demands for reforms, to efforts to alleviate symptoms, without curing the disease. Here’s...

May 2, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, Literature

Her Ozymandias and Mine!

One class by a teacher was so different. Hemashri talks about her daughter’s and her experiences of studying Ozymandias, three decades away, from their respective teachers and the stark...

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