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November 8, 2021
Hemashri Hazarika
Gender, Relationship & Lifestyle

Are We Better Off Than Our Mothers and Grandmothers?

Can the financial independence of working women help them sail through the distress period when their husbands die? They also need support, care, love, and togetherness, which is often...

November 1, 2021
Prof. Swaraj Raj
Ecology, Environment, Opinion, Pandemic

Hope & Patience: How a Caterpillar Transformed into a Butterfly!

Dr. Swaraj, an expert on butterflies, reveals a story of patience and hope, of how a caterpillar transformed into a beautiful Common Mormon butterfly. An exclusive for Different Truths....

October 27, 2021
Shail Raghuvanshi
Poem

Freedom from Death, from Life

A poignant, heart-wrenching poem, for Shail’s friend, who succumbed to Covid. A tribute exclusively for Different Truths. Feisty fireflies of freedom traverse the crowded caravan of careless cruising, drowning...

October 21, 2021
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
History & Culture, People, Place, Travel & Food

A Child’s Eye View of Varanasi

Ruchira walks down the memory lane to the Varanasi of her childhood days. An exclusive for Different Truths. It was the early 1970’s to be precise. As a seven-year-old,...

October 8, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Food, People, Place, Travel & Food

The Twin Cities and Their Twin Cultures – I

Dr. Roopali walks down the memory lane to her childhood. In the first part, she recalls her parental home at Hyderabad and her army officer father’s stay in Delhi,...

September 28, 2021
Soumya Mukherjee
Guest Blog, Humour

Ajay Sharma Learns a Lesson

Tongue-in-cheek, Soumya exposes the deep-rooted corruption in the banking sector, through his protagonist, Ajay Sharma, for Different Truths. This was the first branch that Ajay, a twenty-five-year-old just two...

September 27, 2021
Prof. Swaraj Raj
Humour, Potpourri

Joys of Being Absent-Minded

Dr. Swaraj writes about the boons and banes of absent-mindedness, sparkling with wit, humour, and erudite scholarship. An exclusive for Different Truths. It was a glorious May morning. Thrilled...

September 24, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Travel & Food

Home is Where the Heart is! – II

Dr. Roopali tells us about the joy of migrant labourers returning home, from the Middle East, after many years. They felt free. An exclusive for Different Truths. At the...

September 17, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Migration & Diaspora, Relationship & Lifestyle, Travel & Food

For the Ashes of my Father and the Temples of my Gods*

Dr. Roopali tells us about voyages to distant lands. Her father’s family left Dhaka during his childhood. It stayed with him. A highly decorated Air Force officer, her Rakhi...

September 16, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Poem

Dreaming Dhaka on the River Buri-Ganga

Memories of people, boatmen, food, songs, a river, encapsulates the agony of a migrant father, in this poem, by Dr. Roopali. An exclusive for Different Truths. When you grow...