saree Archives - Different Truths

December 3, 2025
Mowmita Sur
Governance

Wear Your Saree Your Way: The Ultimate 2025 Style Manifesto

Mowmita states that in 2025, the timeless saree reigns supreme—effortlessly blending heritage with bold modernity, sustainability, and unapologetic personal style, for Different Truths. “Elegance is not standing out but...

November 4, 2025
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

My Silence/ I Cherish a Leap of Love

Here are two poems by Sarala, in Different Truths. The first poem is inward-looking, a tribute to a mother. The second verse is an outward journey, where the poet...

March 8, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

The Bitch, the Witch or That Woman on a Shaky Pedestal?

Millions of women are ostracised for what is normal, and in fact, a magical and powerful bodily function that enables the miracle of life. It is our fear of...

October 3, 2022
Susmita Bhattacharya
Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

Durga Puja Nostalgia: Opening an Old Album and the Paroxysms of Emotions

Freshly returned from South America, first time Durga Puja to experience yet the vast unsettled feeling from being brought to a quite stringent and conservative environment in Batanagar from the...

June 8, 2021
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

A Soldier’s Wife

Sarala pens a soulful poem about the agony and resolve of a soldier’s wife, exclusively for Different Truths. Does anyone know their pain? That widow, young and beautiful Lost...

May 15, 2020
Shyamal Mukhopadhay
Arts, History & Culture

A Story of Bengal Kantha

Shyamal MukhopadhayShyamal Mukhopadhyay writes bilingual poems and stories, which get published in magazines like Tuck, Indian Periodicals, Spillwords and many other national and international anthologies. He was a bank executive...

April 4, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

Sugar and Spice: Is Everything Nice?

In her weekly column for Different Truths, Hemashri shares two experiences that reveal the work environment in a government office. The retirement age for Supreme Court judges is 65...

March 22, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Fashion & Beauty

The Wonderland of Traditional Indian Jewellery

Ruchira tells us about some popular ornaments from various parts of India that women still love to adorn and possess, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Since...

February 27, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, Relationship & Lifestyle

Wonder Why We Are Distanced From Our Wallmates at Workplaces!

In offices, we are often a wall away from our wall-mates. But each of us seems to be walled within our small selves, seldom helping each other, agonises Hemashri...

February 16, 2018
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion

India has over Eighty Ways of Draping a Sari

There are more than 80 recorded ways to wear a sari. The most common style is for the sari to be wrapped around the waist, with the loose end...