Ibrahim Honjo: Creativity is not the Only Purpose
Creativity is not the only purpose on its own. An author seeks his work to live in people and with people as long as possible, to leave a mark...
Sliver of Memories
An inward-looking, evocative verse by Mamta, in Different Truths. She tells us that in this ephemeral, ever-changing world, something doesn’t change. Like migratory birds I return home to the...
How to Begin Wildlife Photography?
Do you love photography and want to be a pro in this field? We introduce a regular column, from this Sunday, by our Photo Guru, an ardent wildlife photography...
Our Opinion about Kashmir Changed!
We are often conditioned by our biases and prejudices. This is what Soumya felt during a visit to Kashmir. A different shade of writing from our humourist, in the...
Sex and the Indian Woman: More than Lipstick under our Burqas
Gender roles are defined and given in a patriarchal society. The ‘good’ versus the ‘bad’ girl/woman mindset in the backdrop of the film Lipstick under my Burqa and marital...
A Retrospective of Concern for Human Values: Letters to Namdeo Dhasal by Chandramohan S
Chandramohan’s poems portray subaltern life with exactitude and his concern for human values is quite evident in almost all poems in this collection. Poem after poem one can sense...
Saying yes Always? Say no too!
Being compliant at the drop of a hat is a metaphor for ‘I am a door mat, walk all over me with your dirty feet.’ We need to exit...
All about Nail Care
Our Kuala Lumpur-based fashionista, Shameena, tells us all about nail care, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Are you taking good care of your nails? Are they...
Bimal Roy Challenged the Taboos through his Cinema of Social Realism
Samina, a movie buff, talks about the life and times of the celebrated filmmaker, Bimal Roy. His cinema of social realism challenged the taboos that gripped the society then....
Kamala Markandaya: An Important Twentieth Century Indian Woman Novelist in English
Basudeb profiles one of the early woman novelists of India, Kamala Markandaya. A critique, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The Bronte sisters, Mrs. Gaskell, Dorothy Richardson...