Happy - Different Truths

November 16, 2016
Dr. Krishna Hota
Religion

How Daily Worship Enhances our Personality!

Daily worship is a wonderful training of the body and mind. When a person communicates with God or the Supreme Being, (s)he connects with the inner self. Worship enhances and...

November 7, 2016
Shail Raghuvanshi
People

Life on Pavements: Memory and Instinct helps Mahalingam understand Books

Very few people are able to give back to society what they never got from it. Mahalingam, as this 68-year- old second-hand bookseller, is known, studied only till class three....

October 31, 2016
Shail Raghuvanshi
People

Selvam, a Mobile Tailor, who Sewed the Tatters of his Life

Life often deals a nasty blow when you least expect it. This is what happened to Selvam, a mobile tailor by profession whose arrogance brought about his downfall. An accident...

October 4, 2016
Saheli Mitra
Gender, Rituals & Practices

An Open Letter of a Sex Worker to Goddess Durga

Goddess Durga’s idol made during Durga Puja is incomplete without the soil from the house of a sex worker. The belief is that the soil should be begged for...

September 30, 2016
Nikita Goel
Relationship & Lifestyle

Why do some Couples Choose to Remain Childless?

The definition of a family differs. While for some couples, it’s complete after having kids, for others it could mean not having any children. The choice to have or not...

September 22, 2016
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Poem

Talking with a Phantom

Intense loneliness of a mother, pining for her son, in distant land, the USA, has been captured beautifully in this evocative verse by Sunil. Hullo! Yes…Sid? Hullo? How are you?...

September 1, 2016
Uday Biradar
Education & Career, Science & Technology

Lessons from the Borg

In a slightly different take this week, we look at some team dynamics and emotions that are part and parcel of a corporate team building products. We also consider how...

August 31, 2016
Sunita Paul
Poem

When I die

It’s not just a death wish or an elegy for oneself, but the yearning to be loved ever after. Here is a soulful poem by Sunita exclusively for Different Truths....

June 18, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

Of Fathers, and Daughters

A dedication on Father’s Day On the occasion of Father’s Day, this poem is Lopamudra’s small dedication to the bond that her daughters share with their father, her husband, and...

May 30, 2016
Duska Vrhovac
Poem

There are People

Duska’s intense and evocative poem of many people around us. There are people you don’t have to talk to understand them. You don’t have to see them regularly send...

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