flight Archives - Different Truths

July 2, 2026
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

Memorable Meals I Have Had

Humourist Soumya tells us of the many adventures of his, in the company of others, between 1983 and 2013. He mixes humour, food, drinks, fancy-free, and footloose bohemian life...

November 18, 2023
Anumita Roy
Humor, Relationship & Lifestyle

A Girl has Nine Lives!

Anumita reminisces of time, when she was barely nine-year-old. She walks down the memory lane and takes us on an interesting air travel from Calcutta to Venezuela with her...

April 9, 2021
Prof. Sanjoy Saksena
Poem

Interface in Sisterhood

An intense, woman-centric, protest poem, by Prof. Sanjoy, exclusively for Different Truths. I am no birdie but an albatross Spanning ocean depths. Those who come Under my wings are...

January 22, 2021
Shantanu Mukharji
Defence, Guest Blog, International Relations, Profile

Flight to Pakistan

Shantanu, a retired IPS, reminisces about a flight to Pakistan, when he was a part of the SPG, to protect the then PM Rajiv Gandhi, in 1988. He profiles...

March 7, 2020
Sukanya Basu Mallik
Cinema, Reviews

The Aeronauts:A Gripping Fact-based Adventure Movie

Sukanya Basu MallikSukanya Basu Mallik is a renowned Indian writer, known for her works in various publications and for winning Best Manuscript Awards for fiction & non-fiction categories (Mumbai...

February 25, 2020
Enakshi J
Humour, Relationship & Lifestyle

A Shot in the Arm, Quite Literally!

Enakshi JEnakshi is an educator, an author and a traveller. She loves to learn. Her writings have appeared in The Speaking Tree (Times of India), Woman’s Era, Alive, Infitithoughts,...

December 17, 2019
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

A Flight to Lahore

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...

July 12, 2018
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Bluebells in Glee

Here’s an evocative prose poem by Deeya, exclusively for Different Truths. The bluebells in glee spring their jocund heads in the sunny scape of mind, the fleeting images of...

May 23, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

Prayers, Process, and Reforms: Some Things do Not Change for Ordinary People

The state administrative service is rife with arbitrariness and discrimination. Hemashri recounts how her study-leave prayer for higher studies at JNU, New Delhi, was denied, while two other batchmates...

May 15, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Literature, People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

Touching Lives

She wanted to marry a classmate from her business school, who was from a different community and working in another small town at the end of the country. They seemed...