I Lived One Night
Here’s an evocative poem by Anumita that deals with the ephemeral life and its eternal possibilities – exclusively for Different Truths. One night when my feet touch the clouds,...
The Heritage of Latin American Women Writers
In Latin America, there is a tradition of women’s rights activism. Commitment to gender equality is not new in Latin America. In fact, Latin women’s empowerment has reached beyond...
When the Words Committed Harakiri
Santosh, in her humourous poem, tells us how words handle a writer. “They misuse us, abuse us Malappropriate us,” said words of every hue Confabulating in a word-conference Quivering...
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...
Book Extract: For the Love of a Man
The book For the Love of a Man is a heavily fictionalized account of her life that lays bare taboo subjects like female sexuality, exposing what right-thinking people would carry...
For Utsab, Young Doctor & Singer, Life is a Musical Celebration!
Dr. Utsab Das, a young doctor, efficiently manages his profession and passion. Ruchira interviews this rising Bengali singer, exclusively for Different Truths. About three years ago, I had first...
Rabindranath Tagore: An Inquiry into Ideas and Ideals
In order to acquire a worldview for himself, Tagore strove to achieve a balance between Humanism and Naturalism, Individualism and Determinism, Hedonism and Asceticism, all of them being...
Tagore, Ray and Basu: The Broken Nest, Charulata, and Stories from Rabindranath Tagore
There are many admirers of Satyajit Ray’s film, Charulata (1964), which is often seen as a retelling of the story of Rabindranath Tagore’s own time spent with his elder brother...
An Unseen Cradle
An enigmatic love poem, by Sonali, exclusively for Different Truths An unseen cradle was there between the sea and the shores, Unseen footage of a sea gull vanished in...
The Prettiest of All
Sarala BalachandranSarala Balachandran was working with an import-export organisation in the administrative department for 38 years. She retired eleven years back. Married, with two sons aged 43 and 36,...