One Less Ma
The trials and tribulations of staying far away from homeland are many. Our Managing Editor, Anumita, shares the grief of losing one of her Mas (mothers). Here’s her soulful...
Germany Coalition has New Faces but Old Polices: Left Wing Linke Weakened by Dissensions
Although the SPD kept floundering in opinion polls, currently at 18 percent, Angela Merkel needed it to obtain enough Yes seats in the Bundestag to stay in power. She...
Will the Indo-Israel Bilateral Engagements Create New Avenues in International Relations?
As India and Israel faced each other in impeccable, vaunted acknowledgement, it has become possible if not easier to find intersections of interest; such intersections in the process of...
The Curtain Call of 2017
Ruchira recalls the year gone by with mixed feelings. She moves from the individual to the social and political realms, exploring the many layers, in the Special Feature, exclusively in Different...
Salad Bowl and Americanism
American writers of the Indian sub-continent are women. They are Mary Anne Mohan Raj, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri and Bapsi Sidhwa, Pakistan’s important diasporic writer. In their writings, what...
The US Military: Extended Reach and Challenges in the Face of Budgetary Pressures
The fundamental forces shaping the US military for a long time have been the extended reach and challenges of extended operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, it faces new...
There and Back Again: A Poetic Journey Breaking Boundaries
Sufia interviewed Vaijayantee Bhattacharya during the recent launch of her book of poems, Mosaic Vision, exclusively in Different Truths. Hometown, birthplace, motherland/ fatherland; these words hold special significance in...
Memories of Sangla Hill
This is a question that we all have to answer. Shia, Sunni, Catholic, Protestant, Bengali, Marathi, Brahmin, Jathav, Black, White, Brown, Yellow, do we all mark our territories and...
Faraz Ansari: Will India respond to the Sisak of the LGBTQ Community?
Director Faraz Ansari’s Sisak is the first silent LGBTQ film of India that is not only creating waves at international film festivals but winning awards too; seven, so far....
The Peace Anthology – People against Genocide: Stop Chemical War in Syria. Save Humanity!
Different Truths presents The Peace Anthology – People against Genocide: Stop Chemical War. Save Humanity! It features 56 poets, with as many poems, from various parts of the world....