Grandchildren Archives - Different Truths

August 23, 2025
Mamta Joshi
Short Story

A Bowlful of Elegy

A poignant and sensitive portrayal of two women, Badi ma and Choti ma, the two sisters-in-law, whose lives are strangely braided. Their glaring differences notwithstanding, they are totally dependent on...

January 3, 2022
Madhumita Ghosh
Advocacy, Short Story

The Haven

Madhumita talks of two inmates of an old age home, Sunanda and Manjula. While Sunanda made a voluntary decision and reasoned with her children, Manjula was cast away. The author...

December 28, 2021
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Fiction, Special Feature

Book Extract: For the Love of a Man

The book For the Love of a Man is a heavily fictionalized account of her life that lays bare taboo subjects like female sexuality, exposing what right-thinking people would carry...

September 13, 2018
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Lifestyle, Parenting

Terrible Twins, Their Big Brother, and a Doting Grandmother

Dr. Amrinder takes a break for her busy schedule to spend a day with her grandchildren, big brother, Jashn, and twin little sisters, Anya and Alia. With three grandchildren,...

June 26, 2018
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Poem

Are we not all Privileged and Unprivileged in Some Way?

Ritambhara looks at the emptiness and void in the lives of the rich and pits it against the have-nots, in this verse, exclusively for Different Truths. The homeless on...

June 7, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Place, Potpourri

Summer Vacations: Then and Now

Ruchira reminisces about summer vacations. Life in the past was simpler and uncluttered. The simple joys of yesteryears are passé. The concept of family outings has changed now. The...

May 13, 2018
Nanditaa Bannerjee
Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Feature, Tribute

The Making of my Mother

Nanditaa recalls her time with her mother. She perhaps realised the meaning of motherhood when she became one. An inward-looking, reflective piece, as Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths....

March 23, 2018
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Poem

Desert Flowers

When life seems cruel, in the arid desert, flowers bloom. A new hope and joy. Dr. Amrinder celebrates life, in this verse, for Different Truths. This is the age...

March 21, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations, Politics, World

Xi Makes a Changez Khan Pitch: Peaceful Life on Earth is Under a Threat

President Xi Jinping will be the ‘Changez Khan’ of the 21st Century. The man, like his sprawling country, is a glutton for land, a bear for ‘territory’; and when...

December 17, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Book Extract, Fiction

The Heart of Donna Rai: Police

Here’s the third and final part of the three-part book extract from the forthcoming novel, The Heart of Donna Rai by Sumita, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different...

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