Loneliness - Different Truths

July 6, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy

Seven Tips to Help Your Aging Parents Battle Loneliness

As children leave the nests for greener pastures, aging parents are often left behind, battling loneliness. Rita gives us seven invaluable tips to help aging parents deal with the...

July 1, 2017
Different Truths
Book Club, Poem

Ten Selected Poems of Prof. Pushpita Awasthi from Echoes in the Earth

Here are ten selected poems of Prof. Pushpita Awasthi, selected by her, in the Book Extract, from her book, Echoes in the Earth (2016) this week. A Different Truths...

June 11, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Alone

An inward looking poem by Sarala, where she talks of loneliness and meeting the her creator, in Different Truths. Alone I walked throughout my life With no one to...

February 22, 2017
Nandita Samanta
Crime, Gender

Which Poison Killed Mandira: Murder Mystery of a Rape Victim – II

In the second and final part of the fictionalised true story of a rape victim, Aftermath, we find that the plot thickens. Mandira’s diary, found by her daughter, Ananya, convinces...

February 21, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Relationship & Lifestyle, Short Story

A Day of Revelations!

She began by writing emails to those online friends she had not thought of, forget written to, in almost two years. As she hit ‘send’ each time, it seemed like...

January 24, 2017
Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Sports

Akashganga: They also Serve, who Just Stand and Wait – XV

Behind the risk of life and limb stood the woman by his man. Running from sick quarters to banks and schools, buying groceries riding cycles or by walk, receiving and...

December 29, 2016
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Sankhya Yoga – VI

In the sixth part, Nilanjana tells us few wonderful stories about the three sons of Brahma, who were asked to populate the world by the Creator. Here Narayana says how...

October 27, 2016
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, People

Loneliness and the Elderly: Where do they all Belong?

Loneliness may be described as a feeling of emptiness or sadness that is triggered when there is a lack of communication or a feeling of companionship with other people. Loneliness...

June 24, 2016
Lily Swarn
Potpourri

Playing with Pain

The saddest songs are the sweetest ones. Lily quotes Charlie Chaplin and says that the ability to play with pain is rare. In pain, we cry. In a sense of...

June 13, 2016
Payal Lalwani
Relationship & Lifestyle

Celebrate Life and its Beauty

If we want silence and peace, shutting down the world (read realities) is not the solution. Self-denial is not the answer. Have we ever paused and pondered, why are millions...

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