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July 19, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

Sexism and Literature

Payal re-examines classics and popular comics to explore how sexist their content is, exclusively in Different Truths. Recently, I decided to recycle through all the old books that I...

May 22, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri

My Jigsaw Fairy

Tooth Fairy or not, a fairy guided Shernaz through the jigsaw puzzle of life. Read more about it exclusively in Different Truths. When I lost my first milk tooth,...

November 20, 2023
Tapati Sinha
History & Culture

A Potion to Heal and Kill

Since thousands of years poisons have been both a deadly threat and a protective tool used around the world. Poisons have played a dominant role in our history and...

October 12, 2023
Sailasree Potay
Poem

Misfit

A sense of belongingness keeps us rooted. Some people, though present physically in this world are absent mentally. They are the misfits, feels, Sailasree, in this verse, in Different...

September 29, 2023
Sonali Chakraborty
Food

Spicy Orange Chicken: A Fusion Chinese Cuisine

Sonali tells us how she tweaked the Orange Chicken, spiced it up to suit her Indo-Chinese cuisine taste. Read more about it, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different...

April 18, 2023
Smriti Maheshwari
Relationship & Lifestyle

The Delicious Dangers of Online Romance: When and Where to stop?

The Internet has opened the possibility of online romance. It’s heady. Gives an instant high and is deliciously dangerous. Here Smriti, based on her interactions with some of her...

September 30, 2022
Sumita Dutta
Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

Durga Puja: A Five-day Extravaganza of Food, Feast, Fun, and Frolic

Eyes closed, each of us disappears into our own consciousness where we perhaps see a beloved departed parent or remember a past when they stood above us uttering these...

December 21, 2021
Lovita J. R. Morang
Fiction, Special Feature, Special Needs

God of Everything Falls

July 26, 2021
Tutu Dutta
Oral Traditions, Special Feature

The Girl Who Married a Stranger

Tutu recounts a popular folktale from the Calabar region of Nigeria. It’s about a stunning young woman, Afiong. She had bright eyes and velvety smooth skin, the colour of...

August 27, 2018
Sumana Bhattacharjee
Poem

It is Too Late

An evocative love poem, by Sumana, exclusively for Different Truths. Entire life I searched for The very feelings that My heart craves. I stumbled, fumbled, Being cheated cried and...

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