Hanuman - Different Truths

November 21, 2022
Anumita Roy
Business, Humor, People

Black Friday: Sinister Designs and Ploys of Shoppers for Big Bargains!

Black Friday, following the Thanksgiving Thursday, is a time of big bargains in the US. People wait for this day. But, the mad rush to literally grab the goods meant...

September 26, 2022
Arindam Roy
Fairs & Festivals, Humor, Special Feature

When Hanuman Cussed and Rama Smoked Bidi!

Arindam revisits the Ramdal and Ramlila and recalls the terrible faux pas that left Hanuman angry and cussing. He also recalls an incident that his friend, Vijay, told him in...

March 12, 2022
Dr. Tripti Sharan
Gender, History & Culture, Religion, Short Story, Special Feature

The Flickering Diyas

Tripti retells the Ramayana from Sita’s point of view. Here’s Sita’s agony that was perhaps never told in a patriarchal epic, as the special feature on International Women’s Day, exclusively for...

September 27, 2018
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, People, Place, Politics

South Sudan: A Country in Perpetual Turmoil

Salva Kiir Mayardit took oath as the first president of the Republic that day in 2011, the new nation not only gratefully savored its first moments of independence from...

June 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Gossip, Rumour and Test-Tube Sita: Guessing Game over Pranab Da or Mamata Di

There’s no limit to the cycle of birth and rebirth; to rumour and gossip. Mamata Didi’s post-mortem of the BJP in Purulia after leaving to the vultures the carcass...

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...

April 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Riots-by-Design Are Scaring the Allies of BJP

BJP’s allies are abandoning it progressively, triggered by Asansol riots. Here’s a report, for Different Truths. The restiveness among the BJP’s former and present allies has spread from the...

March 28, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mamata Bending the Bow to Blunt the Arrow of BJP: Bengal Challenge Frustrates Foot in Delhi

Mamata Banerjee has one foot in West Bengal, the other in New Delhi, giving her all to cobble a Third Front which is a resurrection that always fails at...

August 1, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Getting Married: A Sudh Filmy Romance

Humourist Soumya tells us all about the trial and tribulations of a Bong getting married to a Sardar girl, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Having posted...

May 11, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Shri Rama – XXV

Nilanjana retells the story of Shri Rama, the seventh avatar of Narayan, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Shri Rama is the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu....

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