Memory - Different Truths

January 23, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

It Does Not Cost extra to be Polite!

Most senior officers in the government service are full of themselves. They do not have the courtesy to offer seats to juniors, anguishes Hemashri, in the weekly column, exclusively...

January 15, 2018
Mira Pawar
Education & Career, Potpourri

The Class of 92 of Hyderabad Public School Celebrated Silver Jubilee Reunion

Established in 1923 as Jagirdars College by the Seventh Nizam of Hyderabad, Sir Osman Ali Khan, the school was meant exclusively for the aristocrats and elites. Sometime in the...

January 10, 2018
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Poem

Hearty Heaves

Here’s an intense and inward-looking love poem by Anouchika, for Different Truths. I bit my lips hard and faced Love Love, bold and pretentious Mindless of my heart’s tidal...

January 5, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Place, Travel & Food

Beauteous Sunset at Kanyakumari, the Southernmost Tip of India

Ruchira takes us to Kanyakumari, where the waters to two seas mingle with an ocean, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Mahatma Gandhi had once remarked about...

December 30, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Oral Traditions, Religion

A Year of Musings: Recounting the Bhagavatam in 2017; the Story Continues

Srimad Bhagavatam skillfully combines all the aspects of creation, where the divine in various forms create, preserve and annihilate only to transform and create again. A close look at...

December 3, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Book Extract, Fiction

The Heart of Donna Rai – I

Here’s a book extract from the forthcoming novel of Sumita, who writes under the penname ‘Shoam’. It is a coming of age story of a thirteen-year-old girl, set just before...

November 25, 2017
Manthena Damodara Chary
Poem

Here’s an evocative poem by Manthena, in Different Truths. Flowery fantasy facilitates felicitous festivity The poetry of symmetry springs rare activity Blissful birds sing in scintillating splendour This world...

November 7, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
People, Place, Travel & Food

Impressions of Italy

Our humourist dabbles in the travelogue. He likens Italy with India, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Italy is just like India. I didn’t meet a single...

October 27, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Poem

The Tadpoles Did Not See

Here’s a poem by Sumita that celebrates nature, the playful innocence of girls, memory, and identity, in Different Truths. The surface rippled, Three pairs of feet plopped in And...

October 26, 2017
Anika Ghei
Relationship & Lifestyle

Loneliness: The Quintessential Wingman

The turbulence and turmoil that rages within the forsaken and forlorn person, after a break-up, has been portrayed by Anika, exclusively for Different Truths. An honest reply to ‘how...

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