Dazzling Dubai: A Travel Paradise
Ruchira takes us on a tour of Dubai, in her weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. On a pleasant December afternoon, I saw Dubai for the first time. It...
The 1962 Sino-Indian War: Recalling a War that was not …it was an Indian Rout
Fought both along the 890 km long McMahon Line and opposite Western Tibet in the Ladakh region of our 4056 km long Sino-Indian borders, the 1962 War showed us...
Poetry and a Call for Change
Here’s an interview by Abha Iyengar, exclusively for Different Truths, with Aabha Vatsa, who brings the winds of poetic change to Faridabad. Vatsa feels that we are living in times...
Rana Safvi: The Untold Story
The world knows her as a famous historian who came out with her first book at the age of 58, a firm believer in the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb of India...
Bollywood Films: Mélange of Coincidence and Fantasy
Ruchira journeys through the masala Bollywood movies and tells us, tongue-in-cheek, with oodles of humour, who gains from it. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths....
Killing those Voices
Why the people who raise their voices are being silenced, perpetually, asks Vedatrayee, a young Kolkata-based lawyer, and an eminent danseuse, reflecting on the death of Gauri Lankesh –...
Anita Nair, a Journey towards Melliorism: The Better Man to Chain of Custody
Basudeb critiques the novels of Anita Nair, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Shornur at the district of Palakkad, Kerala, is Anita Nair’s birth place. She...
Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: A Handful of Aranyaka Fruits – XLI
Nilanjana recounts the many Leelas (cosmic games) of Lord Krishna, as a child. Here’s an interesting story, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. One day little...
Is The Inheritance of Loss of Kiran Desai a Panoramic or Intimate Novel?
Basudeb critiques one of the novels of Kiran Desai, exploring the Weltanschauung of the Indian Diaspora novelists, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Born in Chandigarh,...
Ganesha Utsava: The Ten-Day Celebrations Begin
Here’s a curtain raiser-cum-editorial on Ganesha Utsava, in Different Truths, by the Editor-in-Chief, Arindam. The countdown begins, as the Special Feature shall be released at midnight, just a few...