Queen - Different Truths

August 3, 2024
Anika Ghei
Fiction

House Number 23.

Here’s a mysterious story by Anika. From this Saturday, we are introducing a talented teenage fiction writer, exclusively in Different Truths. After hours of inspecting every nook and corner...

April 12, 2023
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

Azalea

Here’s a poem about the spring flowers, Azalea, by Elsy, in Different Truths. Azalea, your magenta clusters make me muse on your amazing regalia. “We wait all winter for...

March 12, 2022
Dr. Tripti Sharan
Gender, History & Culture, Religion, Short Story, Special Feature

The Flickering Diyas

Tripti retells the Ramayana from Sita’s point of view. Here’s Sita’s agony that was perhaps never told in a patriarchal epic, as the special feature on International Women’s Day, exclusively for...

March 10, 2022
Pyusha Chatterjee Singh
Films, Gender, Special Feature

Liberated Leading Ladies of the Celluloid

Pyusha takes a look at some of the unconventional female characters and women-centric films Bollywood has produced in the recent years. She critiques such films with thumbnail reviews, as...

July 28, 2021
Radhika Bhagat
Oral Traditions, Rituals & Practices, Special Feature

Osun: The River Goddess of Africa

The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is situated along the Osun River in the city of Osogbo and is a UNESCO world heritage site. Here, a statue of the goddess Osun...

September 27, 2018
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, People, Place, Politics

South Sudan: A Country in Perpetual Turmoil

Salva Kiir Mayardit took oath as the first president of the Republic that day in 2011, the new nation not only gratefully savored its first moments of independence from...

September 20, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Travel & Food

Snapshots from South: A Redux

Ruchira tells us about two getaways, both quaint, in Kerala. These are Poovar and Padmanabhapuram Palace, in the weekly column. A Different Truths exclusive. While writing my memoirs about...

June 5, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema, Politics

Rajini and Kamal Cross Swords over Tuticorin

The gloves are off between the two superstars, Rajini and Kamal. Politics has branded them apart and whose histrionics wins the day, and the state, is a topic of...

May 31, 2018
Lovita J. R. Morang
People, Place

World Record Holder Anshu Jamsenpa, Queen of the Everest, the only Woman to Scale Mt. Everest Five Times

Anshu is a world record holder to have scaled Mt. Everest five times. The first Indian woman, she is rightly called the ‘Queen of the Everest’. She is also...

May 4, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Rituals & Practices

Rustling Silks and Flamboyant Hues at Maharashtrian Weddings

Ruchira tells us about Marathi weddings, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Marathi weddings are middle-level affairs, a sharp contrast from the big fat Indian wedding projected...

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