Generations Archives - Different Truths

August 2, 2024
Abhik Shome
Poem

Whispers of 10,000 Generations

An evocative poem by Abhik. Here’s a lyric with epic sensibility, in Different Truths. Whispers of 10,000 generationsLead me to my gardenOh space of knowledge and thought Strike me,...

August 11, 2023
Eswar Anandan
Food, People

Thukpa: A Soup with Historic Importance

Thukpa is a very popular food item and one of the important ones in Tibetan Cuisine. Here’s an interesting insight into the Tibetan culture, in the weekly column, exclusively for...

April 22, 2023
Kunal Karan
Environment, Photo Feature

How Green is my Earth, How Blue, the Sky!

Kunal celebrates the resplendent beauty of nature, its flora and fauna. His camera and pen sings rhapsody and serenades the enchanting beauty of Mother Earth. He traces the beginnings of...

October 3, 2022
Susmita Bhattacharya
Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

Durga Puja Nostalgia: Opening an Old Album and the Paroxysms of Emotions

Freshly returned from South America, first time Durga Puja to experience yet the vast unsettled feeling from being brought to a quite stringent and conservative environment in Batanagar from the...

August 6, 2022
Tapati Sinha
Fiction

The Orchids

The beautiful patch of Orchids, in the neighbourhood of Neeta’s Hyderabad home, was mysterious. Rich women were vanishing. Here’s a short story by Tapati, that unfolds the mystery, exclusively in...

March 9, 2022
Anumita Roy
Economy, Gender, Special Feature

Expensive Periods

During a research about taxes, the author’s attention was drawn to the facts of luxury taxes. There she discovered that tampons and pads come under the umbrella of luxury...

March 8, 2022
Michele Baron
Gender, Special Feature

chains, choices, chances, change … considering Women’s Day

A newborn does not care about the mother’s credentials, caste, class, culture, creed or colour — only that the mother’s arms are strong, her hands supportive and gentle, that there is...

March 7, 2022
Luz Maria Lopez
Criticism, Gender

The Heritage of Latin American Women Writers

In Latin America, there is a tradition of women’s rights activism. Commitment to gender equality is not new in Latin America. In fact, Latin women’s empowerment has reached beyond...

July 22, 2021
Madhuri Bhattacharya
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Growing Up in Wilderness: African Stories of Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing was born to British parents, Alfred Taylor and Maud Me Veigh, in 1919. After the First World War, her father migrated to Africa and purchased three thousand...

May 12, 2021
Dr. Rashid Askari
Language, People, Place, Special Feature, Tribute

Tagore and Bangladesh

Had there been no stay in East Bengal, Tagore would have been a split soul – a divided personality. A complete and undivided Tagore is that Tagore who is...

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