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October 31, 2019
Prof. Sanjoy Saksena
Poem

Love in Samdabad

Prof. Sanjoy SaksenaProf. Sanjoy Saksena was educated at the Universities of Allahabad and Oxford where he was a Commonwealth student St. Catherine’s College. Various academic errands and programmes have...

June 9, 2018
IPA Service
Humour, Politics

Tharoor in the Dock Kicks Up a Farrago of Emotions

Here’s a humourous, fictional account of Shashi Tharoor and the pending court case against him, for Different Truths. Jocko Street cut short the overseas call. “Shashi Tharoor is in...

June 9, 2018
Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar
Book Review, Criticism, Poem

Bunch of Blooms: A Critical Analysis

Pankajam, a very prolific poet of high repute, standing in the garden of literature, with joy and pride, with her Bunch of Blooms, her eighth collection of poems tempts...

June 1, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, People

Police Fails to Prevent Honour Killing of a Dalit in Kerala

Kevin Joseph, the Dalit Christian boy, was brutally murdered for daring to marry an upper caste Christian woman, Neenu Chacko, at the end of a three-year-old romance, against the...

May 16, 2018
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand
Criticism, Fashion & Beauty

An Insight into the Psyche of the Modern Man in the Poems of Basudeb Chakraborti – III

Basudeb Chakraborti’s poems, on loneliness, offer mature insight into the psyche of the modern man. In his poem, ‘Love to be a Loner’, he declares: “A life of complete fulfilment I...

April 17, 2018
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand
Book Review, Criticism

Poetry of Basudeb Chakraborti is Rooted in the Indian Tradition – I

It can be safely said that academicism and creativity often have an inverse relationship, as most the creative giants had nothing to do with the teaching of literature, and...

March 1, 2018
Kabir Deb
Poem

Queer Pride

A poem about the trials and tribulations of the LGBTQ community, by Kabir, for Different Truths. We know what fails to suit us Yet we believe that it is...

November 14, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Food, History & Culture

The Journey and the Transformation of the Traditional Italian Pizza

The traditional Pizza is the Marinara, or the seafarer’s dish, and consisted of garlic and olive only, and sometimes, seafood from the catch if it could be spared. It...

July 9, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Guru Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar and Bimal Roy, Three Great Film Personalities, Were Born This Week

Three great film personalities celebrate their birthdays this week. While Guru Dutt was a brilliant filmmaker, his personal life was a mess – possibly the tragic heroes he portrayed...

June 20, 2017
Payal Talreja
Crime, Gender

Trolls and Their Dirty Underwear

Payal shows us the ugly face of trolls, red in tooth and claw. She explains the reasons for trolling and also suggests how to deal with these, in the...