…And Two Women Suffered
She was a slim, tall, elegant woman, too pretty to be a cook in our house, but as she was not very young, my mother kept her immediately. She...
African Women Stand Tall against Female Genital Mutilation
Butchering girls’ private parts, cutting out healthy flesh in the name of religious ritual is barbaric. Whenever a girl or a woman gets cut, she becomes exposed to numeric...
The Nun in Convent
Poonam pays tribute to a Catholic nun, who taught them at school, exclusively for Different Truths. She was a German Catholic nun In an Indian Girls Convent school Teaching...
Confessions of a Special Needs Mother
Anumita candidly opens her heart and tells Different Truths the many trail and tribulations of being a special needs mom for two special needs children. Five steps forward and...
Revisiting the Idea of School Education of Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore wanted to defend the freedom he enjoyed in his family, for all humanity. He remained firmly opposed to colonial education that aimed at material prosperity. He believed...
One Last Tagore Birthday before My Death
A Diaspora, Dr. Partha shares the agony of a Bengali far away from his homeland. He confesses, there are quite a few other Bengali immigrants both from Bangladesh...
Aesthetics, Politics, Pedagogy and Tagore
Tagore rested on his desire for a far-off planet, listened to the invitation of a dream and did not allow the spaceship to rust. His journeys and envisagements, however,...
Riots
A new game called riot in a boy’s school to witness actual riots in 1984, along with the reference of the partition riots, Soumya records all these, in this...
Secularism in Deed: None of us were Converted in a Convent
Shernaz WadiaTo Shernaz Wadia, reading and writing poems has been one of the means to embark on an inward journey. She hopes her words will bring peace, hope and...
When my Dream Came True…
Bina PillaiWriter and poetess. Writing, people, philosophy, and photography are her strength. Besides short stories and poems, she loves to write about issues, that touches her. She did the...