Mother tongue Archives - Different Truths

June 27, 2026
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism

That Language Named Urdu

The fictional character of Urdu having a Muslim character persisted in times of Premchand and also exists till now. He also encouraged the use of Hindustani, a simplified version...

October 29, 2022
Atrayee Bhattacharya
Short Story, Special Feature, Special Needs

A Weed of Mine

Atrayee fictionalises a real-life experience about how an autistic child chose her, tugging on to the pallu of her saree. The paroxysms of emotions and his acceptance make him...

December 29, 2021
Dr Jayita Sengupta
Short Story, Special Feature

Mandaravas

An enigmatic story that unfolds itself through metaphors and images, talking of dreams and desires, of love and lust and the quintessence of womanhood. This story is a part of the...

May 12, 2021
Dr. Gauranga Mohanta
Aesthetics, Environment, Language, Multiculturalism, People, Place, Special Feature, Spirituality, Tribute

Revisiting the Idea of School Education of Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore wanted to defend the freedom he enjoyed in his family, for all humanity. He remained firmly opposed to colonial education that aimed at material prosperity. He believed...

June 16, 2018
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Some Problems of Translation: A Study of Red Oleanders by Tagore – I

The journey of the theme and the meta-theme, encoded into one language, to another language, is the kernel of the translation process. We need to remember in this connection that...

June 9, 2018
Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar
Book Review, Criticism, Poem

Bunch of Blooms: A Critical Analysis

Pankajam, a very prolific poet of high repute, standing in the garden of literature, with joy and pride, with her Bunch of Blooms, her eighth collection of poems tempts...

May 2, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Whose May Day is it: Kaamdar or Naamdar?

If you shout Mayday-Mayday! Don’t be shy. It is May 1, international workers day, which traces its origins to the Haymarket locality of the Chicago of the 19th Century, and...

March 10, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, Tribute

Veteran Communist Leader of Pakistan Jam Saqi is no More

Jam Saqi, former general secretary of the Communist Party of Pakistan passed away on March 5. Suffering from multiple ailments, he died of renal failure. Here’s a tribute, for...

January 30, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Being Clever by Half will not Help Rahul and his Congress Party

Swearing loyalty to the Hindutva ideology is those who are wholly Hindu. There are no half-measures with this lot. Their idea of Hinduism does not waver. Interestingly, no Muslim...

December 2, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Multiculturalism

American writers of the Indian sub-continent are women. They are Mary Anne Mohan Raj, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri and Bapsi Sidhwa, Pakistan’s important diasporic writer. In their writings, what...