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...
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 wishes...
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...
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...
Wonder Why We Are Distanced From Our Wallmates at Workplaces!
In offices, we are often a wall away from our wall-mates. But each of us seems to be walled within our small selves, seldom helping each other, agonises Hemashri...