Ganges Archives - Different Truths

April 21, 2025
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, History & Culture

India through Her Stamps

Sreelata tells us about the journey of India through her stamps. With the first General Post Office being opened, in 1774, in Calcutta, followed by Madras (1778) and Bombay (1792)...

January 4, 2024
Bruce Louis Dodson
Poem

Ganges Satori / Oarsman

Bruce celebrates the beauty of Ganges, in Benares (Varanasi), in his two poems here. In the first poem, he is speechless by the magnificence of the river as mother. In...

December 29, 2021
Dr Jayita Sengupta
Short Story, Special Feature

Mandaravas

An enigmatic story that unfolds itself through metaphors and images, talking of dreams and desires, of love and lust and the quintessence of womanhood. This story is a part of the...

March 15, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Who Wants Kichdi-Pulao: Politics Will Soon Return to Normal in Hindi Heartland

The SP-BSP informal alliance was a machine-killer, the EVM manipulators stood no chance against this safe combination. In Gorakhpur and in Phulpur, the Yadav and the non-Yadav OBC, the...

October 30, 2017
Zeba Abdin
History & Culture, Identity

Does the Changing the Name of a City Alter its Identity? What Happens to Development?

The government is now contemplating of renaming Allahabad as Prayag Raj. “What’s in a name?” Sounds simple. But it triggers several complicated questions, argues Zeba, exclusively in Different Truths....

October 28, 2017
Samrudhi Dash
Book Review, Criticism, Poem

An Eerie Beauty in the Poems of Wani Nazir

Because beauty at its purest is fierce, powerful and terrible captivates the reader. Wani Nazir’s poems have that eerie beauty in them, says Samrudhi, reviewing his book of poems,...

July 1, 2017
Different Truths
Book Club, Poem

Ten Selected Poems of Prof. Pushpita Awasthi from Echoes in the Earth

Here are ten selected poems of Prof. Pushpita Awasthi, selected by her, in the Book Extract, from her book, Echoes in the Earth (2016) this week. A Different Truths...

July 23, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

Prinsep Ghat

Lopamudra presents a series of prose-poems or short vignettes in blank verse based on certain long-standing images of Kolkata, and the US. Here’s the second one of the series, ‘Prinsep Ghat’, exclusively for...

December 3, 2015
Mira Pawar
Fairs & Festivals

The Fervor and Gaiety at Pushkaram Festival

Pushkaram festival is an auspicious fair-festival celebrated in Andhra Pradesh and Telengana states, every twelve years. During the Pushkaram festival devotees brave various difficulties. They rush to observe the holy tradition....

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