Responsibility - Different Truths

July 19, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

Sexism and Literature

Payal re-examines classics and popular comics to explore how sexist their content is, exclusively in Different Truths. Recently, I decided to recycle through all the old books that I...

June 10, 2024
Payal Talreja
Gender

Boys will (Not) be Boys: Towards a more Human Society

We talk all the time about what we would teach our daughters, but we equally need to engage in reorienting that which is taught to our sons, not just...

January 17, 2024
Tapati Sinha
History & Culture, Religion

Makar Sankranti: A Pan-Indian Solar Festival Celebrating Bounty

Makar Sankranti is an important pan-Indian solar festival, known by different names. It is known as Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Pedda Panduga in Andhra Pradesh, Bihu in Assam, Magha...

October 4, 2023
Anumita Roy
Relationship & Lifestyle

Involve Children in Household Chores

There is a common feeling of guilt of the parents to involve their children to help out needs to be stopped, as children are part of the family. There is...

March 13, 2022
Michele Baron
Gender, History & Culture, Special Feature

Women Struggled More Than a Century for Empowerment

In Copenhagen, 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, German activist Clara Zetkin raised a vote, supported by women from 17 nations, to organise an International Working Women’s Day....

March 11, 2022
Tapati Sinha
Gender, Special Feature

An Open Letter to my Dear Daughter

Tapati raises several issues that concern women, in her open letter to Sukanya, her daughter, as part of the Special Feature. A Different Truths exclusive. Dear Sukanya, Sukanya, I...

March 9, 2022
Amit Singh
Gender, Human Rights, Special Feature

Universalism Vs Relativism: Honour Killings of Women in India

Cases of honour killings represent an old tussle between universality of human rights and particularity/relativism – in this case, particular. Against this background, this article critically examines the role...

March 9, 2022
Chhavi Mehra
Gender, Special Feature

Sex Addiction in Women furthers Patriarchy; Compassion leads to Empowerment

Sex addiction is often viewed as an attachment or intimacy disorder. This paper examines sex addiction from a psycho-social perspective. The review includes current research from two major studies....

January 7, 2022
Alisha Phillips
Short Story

The Scars Within

Here’s an evocative short story by Alisha that she penned during a Creative Writing Workshop, conducted by our Editor-in-Chief, Arindam. An exclusive for Different Truths. Red. That was the...

December 28, 2021
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction, Special Feature

Raag Jhanjhavati

Here’s a story about Madhumalati’s marriage with musically illiterate Satish Mohan, who called her ‘Raaga Jhanjhavati’, given her temper and fuss. Through various twists and turns, they land in...

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