The Emerald Ring
Here’s an interesting love story in the backdrop of the partition of India. Urooj captures the tensions of the lovers belonging to different faiths. She also vividly describes the...
Tagore, Ray and Basu: The Broken Nest, Charulata, and Stories from Rabindranath Tagore
There are many admirers of Satyajit Ray’s film, Charulata (1964), which is often seen as a retelling of the story of Rabindranath Tagore’s own time spent with his elder brother...
A Gold Watch of the Bishop, a Stick of the Gardener and the Train
A Bishop had blamed the son of the gardener for stealing his gold wristwatch. The gardener too had beaten his son blue-black. Was the boy a thief? A story...
Bunch of Blooms: A Critical Analysis
Pankajam, a very prolific poet of high repute, standing in the garden of literature, with joy and pride, with her Bunch of Blooms, her eighth collection of poems tempts...
A Friendship Soured
Hemashri recounts a painful, real-life experience, in a fictional voice, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Syamoli still wonders whether colleagues could ever be friends! She simply...
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 a higher study to JNU, New Delhi, was not granted, while...
How We Returned from the Tunnel of Death!
The aircraft was fated for ditching, gliding straight along the channel south of the Cochin sailing club, the crew prepared for the SOP rehearsed live emergency and escape drills. As...
Casting Couch as Livelihood Provider: Bollywood Makes Song and Drama of Rape Culture
The casting couch is just another piece of furniture that pretty girls aspiring to become Bollywood starlets should get familiar with in the prone position. The casting couch phobia...
The Intersection between the World Famous Books and the Picture Books
Reading a picture book is the interests and pastimes of many modern people. In the picture book world, the pictures are used as its compositions and colours, to show...
Elixir, a Voyage of the Mind: Bestseller and a Critically Acclaimed Novel
Where does our mind go, when we fall asleep? Can dreams weave a layer of parallel existence? Can there be another reality beyond all that we touch, see or...