Marriage - Different Truths

January 26, 2023
Dr Manisha Lakhanpal Sharma
Humour, Relationship & Lifestyle

Marriage, Marriage Go Away, Never Come Another Day!

A Dulha Dulhan course is the latest fad. Dr Manisha asks if we are moving towards the digitalisation of emotions or will artificial intelligence dictate marriages – exclusively for...

December 5, 2022
Shernaz Wadia
Gender, Human Rights

Why is it a Curse to be a Girl-child?

Shernaz fictionalises a real-life account where the daughter, a girl-child, in dire need of kidney transplant was left uncared for. No medical expenses were provisioned for her since she...

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...

March 29, 2022
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Relationship & Lifestyle

Arranged Marriage: The Wheel Goes Full Circle!

Tongue-in-cheek, Soumya talks of arranged marriages, with sparkling wit. An exclusive for Different Truths. There’s was an arranged marriage He was a romantic soul but without the charm to...

March 13, 2022
Nilakshi Roy
Gender, Short Story, Special Feature

…And Two Women Suffered

She was a slim, tall, elegant woman, too pretty to be a cook in our house, but as she was not very young, my mother kept her immediately. She...

March 11, 2022
Tapati Sinha
Gender, Special Feature

An Open Letter to my Dear Daughter

Tapati raises several issues that concern women, in her open letter to Sukanya, her daughter, as part of the Special Feature. A Different Truths exclusive. Dear Sukanya, Sukanya, I...

March 10, 2022
Amidha Porter
Books, Gender

A Country Between Worlds

Amidha was amazed to think that Stephanie would, after this first book, Bread of Angels, return not to Syria – we know what tragedy is transforming that ancient culture beyond...

March 10, 2022
Pyusha Chatterjee Singh
Films, Gender, Special Feature

Liberated Leading Ladies of the Celluloid

Pyusha takes a look at some of the unconventional female characters and women-centric films Bollywood has produced in the recent years. She critiques such films with thumbnail reviews, as...

March 9, 2022
Amit Singh
Gender, Human Rights, Special Feature

Universalism Vs Relativism: Honour Killings of Women in India

Cases of honour killings represent an old tussle between universality of human rights and particularity/relativism – in this case, particular. Against this background, this article critically examines the role...

March 3, 2022
Mamta Joshi
Poem

A City’s Penance

Here’s a social commentary in verse by Mamta. An undying treeOn the banks of rivers threeTwo polluted, one mythicalA C'ezanne brown medieval fortMysterious shadowsetched under its arches and columnsSilently...

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