memories - Different Truths

April 29, 2017
K Pankajam
Books

Exemplary of Poetic Excellence: Taming the Tides by Dilip Mohapatra

Pankajam reviews a book of poem by Dilip Mohapatra, Taming the Tides, exclusively for Different Truths. Book: Taming the Tides: New and Selected Poems ...

April 11, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

A Walk in the Park

Humourist Soumya talks about the many sights and sounds of morning walk in Mumbai, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The gentle musical notes of the...

April 10, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Carrying the Past: The Story of Two Zen Monks

In an inward looking, reflective piece, Shameena asks, what is the use of carrying the unnecessary baggage of the past? She retells a well-known story of two Zen monks....

April 7, 2017
Nikita Goel
Relationship & Lifestyle

How to Build Tolerance towards Behaviour of Other People?

If some people do not treat others properly, they need love and help. We do not know anything about their pasts, their burdens and baggage. Nikita tells us how...

April 3, 2017
Roula Pollard
Poem

When you do not write to me

Here’s an intense and evocative love poem from Roula, in Different Truths. When you don’t write to me the night turns pierced colours of blue the stars flee, or...

April 1, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

The Other Side of Silence: Documenting Oral History – I

Continuing with the literature on Indian Partition, Basudeb examines an important treatise, The Other Side of Silence, by Urvashi Butalia, in two parts. In the first part, he tells...

March 16, 2017
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism, History & Culture

To Urdu, with Love from Allahabad

Urdu has been an integral part of Allahabad’s vernacular heritage. The Ganga-Jamuni tahzeeb (culture) gets its name from the city of two rivers, Ganga and Yamuna, where these confluence...

March 14, 2017
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, People, Religion

Children of Hope: Face to Face with Dalai Lama

Eswar reminisces meeting His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama for the first time. He recalls the deep reverence among the Tibetan people for their religious leader. Read more about...

March 10, 2017
Sarika Sarkar Das
Food

Of Holi Reminisces and Cool Thandai!

Holi is about fun, frolic, and naughtiness. Sarika reminisces about Holi celebrations, in her Pune hostel and shares the recipe of Thandai, without which Holi is incomplete. Here’s the recipe, in...

March 4, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

How Khushwant Singh deals with the Crisis of Identity in Train to Pakistan?

The present work here aims at finding whether any character or any event in Train to Pakistan directly or indirectly reveals any crisis of communal identity or not. Before Basudeb undertakes this investigation,...

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