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August 2, 2025
Madhumita Ghosh
Short Story

A Rainy Day

Here’s an uncanny story from Madhumita. Three-day long rains had inundated the locality where the young couple stayed. The lady of the house cooked khichudi (rice and lentil porridge) and crisp...

May 27, 2025
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Opinion

The Risky Commitment of Writing: Focus Truth vs. State Power

Prof Bhaskar questioned the value and risks of writing, particularly when it challenges authority, exemplified by the arrest of a professor for a Facebook post exclusively for Different Truths....

March 12, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Get Around the Molehills of Life

We often imagine situations far worse than they are. In short, we create a mountain out of molehills. Shernaz tells us how to overcome this problem, exclusively in Different...

March 9, 2024
Rita Bhattacharjee
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Do We Love Older Women in Literature?

Rita remembers five older women characters in fiction, who are strong feminist characters, as part of the special feature on International Women’s Day (IWD), exclusively for Different Truths. Books...

November 20, 2023
Tapati Sinha
History & Culture

A Potion to Heal and Kill

Since thousands of years poisons have been both a deadly threat and a protective tool used around the world. Poisons have played a dominant role in our history and...

April 29, 2023
Payal Talreja
Advocacy, Children's Right, Gender, Health, Special Needs

Girls and Autism: Missed Diagnosis and Mis-diagnosis

Boys are four times as likely to receive early diagnosis and intervention for ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) than girls. There was a time when it was believed that ASD...

October 2, 2022
Subhajit Sanyal
Relationship & Lifestyle

Durga Puja is the Time for Teenage Crushes and Love

As Puja comes closer, the plans for the outing get chalked out, and the list of Thakur dekha (visiting the pavilions to see the idols) with friends and family is...

March 11, 2022
Debjani Mukherjee
Gender, Human Rights, Special Feature

African Women Stand Tall against Female Genital Mutilation

Butchering girls’ private parts, cutting out healthy flesh in the name of religious ritual is barbaric. Whenever a girl or a woman gets cut, she becomes exposed to numeric...

March 10, 2022
Mamta Joshi
Gender, Special Feature

The Saga of Indian Reel Women down the Ages: Lights! Camera! Action!

Mamta tells us about the women directors of Bollywood, who have followed the footprints of the pioneers, who broke the glass ceiling, as early as 1920’s, as part of the Special...

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...

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