Anansi and the Wisdom Pot
Anansi is a part of the African folklore. He a popular character in many regions of Africa and is known by many names. He is a trickster character, someone...
The Punishment
A young student had to face punishment because he had spoken against the corrupt principal. Stanslaus tells us about the deep-rooted corruption in schools in Tanzania. A Different Truths...
Aesthetics, Politics, Pedagogy and Tagore
Tagore rested on his desire for a far-off planet, listened to the invitation of a dream and did not allow the spaceship to rust. His journeys and envisagements, however,...
An Overview of the Ideas and Visions of Rabindranath Tagore
Rooted in the Indian reality, minus its dogmas, the flight of Rabindranath Tagore’s creative genius made him a global citizen. Swapan delves into the world of his ideas and...
Oxytocin Ban Would Put Many Patients in Serious Difficulty
Oxytocin is not the only the drug; several medicines which have been used in the past are now banned. Byproducts of opium, which are useful in many cases in...
Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure
Bhaskaranand reviews the poetry of U Atreya Sharma and critiques his book Sunny Rain-n-Snow, exclusively for Different Truths. Sunny Rain-n-Snow is a beautiful folio of sixty-three poems well-wrought by U...
Three Ways to Sustain When the Whole Caboodle Seems to be Going Wrong
Ritambhara tells us three ways to tide over the many problems of our lives, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Life is no cake walk. The winner...
When Solutions are worse than Problems: Analysing Amendments in POCSO and Rape Laws
The death penalty of convicts, definitely, does not hold an answer to the burning question of a rise in rape and related crimes. Even Justice Verma Committee has said,...
Are we not all Privileged and Unprivileged in Some Way?
Ritambhara looks at the emptiness and void in the lives of the rich and pits it against the have-nots, in this verse, exclusively for Different Truths. The homeless on...
Translation and the Readers Response Theory – II
Basudeb dwells into the complexities of translation and readers response theory, in the second and final part of his erudite research, exclusively for Different Truths. Translator’ construction of the...