Puja Archives - Different Truths

August 2, 2024
Sonali Chakraborty
Food

Masala Kaju: Spicy Roasted Cashews

Sonali shares the recipe of masala kaju, yummy spicy roasted cashews, perfect snack during festivities. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. We just celebrated...

January 6, 2023
Susmita Bhattacharya
Food

Pithe and Patishapta: Winter Celebratory Sweets in Bengal during Poush Sankranti

With Poush Sankranti around the corner, Susmita tells us about Pithe and Patishapta, the celebratory sweets in Bengali homes, all over the world. Read more in the weekly column,...

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...

August 25, 2021
Anumita Roy
Food, Humour, Migration & Diaspora, People

Being a Desi in America

America has been the crucible, a veritable melting pot, of many cultures. The south Asian community – Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans – are the Desis. They take their...

August 27, 2018
Rupa Rao
Photo Feature, Religion

Versions of Vara Lakshmi Devi on Sravana Shukravaar

Rupa tells us about the Vara Lakshmi Vratam, which is performed on Sravana Shukravaaram (Friday, Aug 24), in parts of South India, mostly Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. A Different Truths...

June 18, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Cover Story

One More Child in School is One Less Child Labourer

Though shocking, almost 73% of the 33 million working children in India in the age group of 5-18 years do not go to school, as the Census 2011 data...

December 23, 2017
Devraj Singh Kalsi
Book Extract, Fiction

Grief

Bibi Amrit, fondly called Biji, doubled her thunderous output on realising that she had an opportunity to overpower Nasib, to show the train of mourners that a mother’s grief...

December 22, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Gender, Relationship & Lifestyle

Am I Modern or Liberated?

In introspection, Ruchira asks some hard questions, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I never blindly followed social norms and customs. Period. For this, I have to...

November 28, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Caste to Dominate Gujarat Assembly 2017 Elections as Nominations for the First Phase Closes

As nominations were filed for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections for 89 seats, with 1073 candidates in the fray. Hardik Patel joined hands with Congress ahead...

September 12, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Humour, Poem

Devi in Dilemma

Here’s a tongue-in-cheek account of the plight of Goddess Durga, on Earth, her parents’ abode, in verse, by Tapati, in Different Truths. Here arrives autumn with sky, a deep...

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