Greenery Archives - Different Truths

March 31, 2023
Kavita Panyam
Relationship & Lifestyle

Love, Life, and Togetherness

Social media has over taken real life relationships. Hyderabad-based psychologist, Kavita, takes a look into the reality technology advancement and changing relationships, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different...

June 22, 2018
Mamta Joshi
Environment

The Wood Wide Web: Why we need a Mowgli in us!

Mowgli’s woody world is full of deep love for the jungle and animals of all shapes and sizes, within it. Rudyard Kipling’s story is laced with moral lessons to...

May 23, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

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...

May 22, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Christians Dressed in Crusade Mail

No names have been taken, neither that of man nor party, in the Archbishop’s letter. But the Church’s David versus Goliath slingshot is aimed at the Modi government. That...

April 28, 2018
Maj Gen Raj Singh Mehta
Defence, Tribute

A Story of Courage and Valour: Veer Madrassis Fought the Odds of Sub-zero Temperatures at Siachen

At Siachen, at 5 am, on February 3, 2016, the 400-ft-high, Bana ice-wall collapsed on the 10 Veer Madrassis of 19 Madras (including a nursing assistant). Led by Braveheart...

December 23, 2017
Suveera Sharma
Home & Garden, Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

A Lesson in Love

There’s an interesting place called Grandpa’s Garden, in Discovery Bay, in Hong Kong, hidden by the lush greenery, almost waiting to be discovered. It is a beautiful organic farm,...

October 27, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Place, Travel & Food

Sultanate of Oman: Pristine Beauty Blended with Modernity

Ruchira takes us on a tour of the Sultanate of Oman, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I am footloose by nature. My fondest dream is to...

June 22, 2017
Tribhawan Kaul
Poem

The Lament of Nature

A poignant verse about the lament of nature by Tribhawan. Here’s a protest poem, in Different Truths Mother assimilates cloud’s offerings The womb delivers nature’s bounty Hope rejoices...

January 19, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: The Plight of Prithvi – IX

Nilanjana recounts the tale of the Mother Earth, Prithvi, tracing its plight to the rule of the wicked king, Vena, who abused the bounty of nature. Sunita, Vena’s mother was...

May 17, 2016
Ritamvara Bhattacharya
Potpourri

Abandoned

Ritamvara, an essential Romantic at heart, identifies with lush greenery of nature. In this prose-poem, she travels from the external world into the meditative silence within her; from the din of...

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