Holi Archives - Different Truths

March 7, 2023
Satadal Sarkar
Fairs & Festivals, Photo Feature, Rituals & Practices

Holi in the Land of Radha-Krishna

A happy go lucky photographer, Satadal shares his experience of shooting Holi pictures in the Braj Bhumi – the land of Radha, Krishna, Dauji and Gopis. It was a sheer...

March 17, 2022
Sarika Sarkar Das
Fairs & Festivals, Food, Pandemic

Pandemic, War and Festivities: Coconut Rabri for Holi

The festival of colours, Holi, brings hope in a world that was struggling with Coronavirus. The Ukraine-Russian war is a new threat. Sarika shares Coconut Rabri to make Holi...

February 13, 2022
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Fairs & Festivals, History & Culture, Potpourri, Religion

Of Desi Valentine’s Day and Spring Festivals

Ruchira narrates the tale of Valentine’s Day and talks of Holi and Saraswati Puja, the two desi Spring festivals. All three have the common root of fertility worship. An...

March 27, 2021
Dr Renu Gupta
Fairs & Festivals, History & Culture, Religion, Special Feature

Holi: A Festival of Love, Joy and Hope

Dr Renu talks about various aspects of Holi, its significance, history, traditions, celebration and how to brace up ourselves for the celebration of this festival in response to the...

March 16, 2020
Monika Ajay Kaul
Cover Story, Potpourri

Spring Celebrates Beauty, Bounty and Fertility

Monika Ajay KaulBorn in the breathtakingly beautiful vale of Kashmir, Monika had her schooling there. A postgraduate in Business Management, an academician by profession, she is an art history...

March 5, 2020
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Potpourri

Spring is in the Air…

Ruchira Adhikari GhoshRuchira Adhikari Ghosh brings a liberal, wide-ranging outlook shaped by extensive travel across India and abroad. Educated at Holy Child School, New Delhi, Sacred Heart Convent, Ludhiana,...

March 20, 2019
Tapati Sinha
Special Feature, Fairs & Festivals, Religion

Holi: The Festive Colours of Spring

Tapati SinhaTapati Sinha is educated from schooling to Post-Graduation from Visva-Bharati University with a Doctoral degree from Nagpur University in A.I.H.C.A. She loves Indian literature, Indian and world history...

May 22, 2018
Mamta Joshi
Cinema, Music

Music and the Cusp between Day and Night: Songs on Dusk from the Fifties to the Seventies

Music and poetry have been beautifully wedded in the songs of dusk in Hindi film songs where words become perfect pegs to showcase music aesthetically. The collapse of the...

May 16, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy, Industry

Bitter Cup of Woes of the Sugar Industry

The moot issue is whether the latest support would help mills, burdened as they were with payment arrears of a humongous Rs. 13,899 crore to the growers as on...

March 20, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

Marriage Blues

Our humourist tells us about two married couples in a train journey, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I was on a Calcutta-bound Rajdhani when a fascinating...