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April 16, 2020
Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-Roy
Literature, Poem

Comet Avataar

Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-RoyProf Sonjoy Dutta Roy retired as Professor/Head, Department of English, Dean of Arts, and Coordinator of Centres for Theatre/Films and Media Studies at the University of Allahabad....

April 13, 2020
Arindam Roy
Literature, Poem

A Prayer: Stop Death Dance of a Virus

Arindam RoyArindam Roy has over four decades of experience in various newsrooms of renowned media houses. He is the Founder, Publishing Director, Editor-in-Chief of Different Truths, and Kavya Kumbh...

April 5, 2019
Sumana Bhattacharjee
Literature, Poem

Prayer To God

Sumana BhattacharjeeSumana Bhattacharjee is an English poetry writer from India . She born and brought up in city Kolkata in a family of teachers . From her childhood she...

July 18, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

Of Pizzas and Governance

Hemashri likens Domino’s money-back pizza policy to government departments. Sadly, no one is accountable for the giant delays, in some cases, of nearly 100 years. Two state governments, Madhya...

July 17, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee

The Price of Life

Here’s an evocative real-life account of the survivors during the partition, in 1947. A little lad was celebrating the survival of his mother and him, dancing the Bhangra –...

July 14, 2018
Sushmita Mukherjee
Criticism

Impromptu: I am Prompted by You

Are the appearances — words, things, beings — truly impromptu? Of course, that is not the subject, the matter of this outpouring, yet, has popped, seemingly impromptu, in the...

May 12, 2018
IPA Service
Terrorism

Mehbooba Mufti is a Darling, But Whose?

Year-round foreign and Kashmiri terrorists go on a killing spree in J&K and Mehbooba wants to give them the Ramadan month off to rest their guns and limbs. She...

April 5, 2018
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Blessing or Curse? – LXVIII

Nilanjana retells a story from the Srimad Bhagavatam, telling us about the nebulous boundaries of blessing and curse, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Sukha continued narrating...

February 17, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Conflict Resolution, Crime

The Gun Laws in the US: More Guns, More Homicides

A strong finding of a study by Philip J. Cook was on gun use and crime was that gun use intensifies violence, making it more likely that the victim...

February 15, 2018
Anumita Roy
Crime, Parenting

Florida High School Shootout: Are School Children Meant to Die Senselessly, asks a Mother

If we look at the statistics of gun violence in schools, it is a staggering data of numbers. Since 2013, there have been 290 incidents in which a gun...