Short Stories - Different Truths

May 10, 2025
Hema Ravi
Book Review

Book Review: A Collection of Short Stories

A comprehensive book review by Hema of a collection of short stories, The Other Choice, by Dr. O.P. Arora for Different Truths When a hard-core academic, eminent novelist, short...

May 1, 2023
Atrayee Bhattacharya
Fiction, Short Story, Special Feature

Kabuliwala of the Eden Gardens

As an homage to Tagore, Atrayee writes a modern version of Kabuliwala. This Mini’s world is that of crayons, TV, Cricket matches, and more. But, the echoes of...

April 21, 2023
Shibangi Dash
Book Review, Short Story

Politics of Writing: Nandini Explores Love, Sexuality & Nostalgia

Nandini Sahu’s twelve-story collection Shedding the Metaphors is intriguing. Shibangi’s book review covers love, loss, redemption, and identity – exclusively for Different Truths. Shedding the Metaphors (2023) is an intriguing collection of twelve...

October 5, 2022
Arindam Roy
Edit, History & Culture, Poem, Politics, Religion, Short Story, Special Feature

Durga Puja amongst Faith, Fallacy and Festivity

July 23, 2022
Anumita Roy
Short Story

Doomed in Love

Is love doomed? Is Rudra cursed? Here’s a soulful short story by Anumita. Her eyebrows were not really arched; they were more like wings with the little black bindi...

March 26, 2022
Santosh Bakaya
Book Review, Criticism

What Makes Dilip Mohaptra’s Short Stories Universally Appealing?

Dr. Santosh reviews Dilip Mohapatra’s collection of short stories, ‘More than Meets the Eye’. An exclusive for Different Truths. This collection of 25 short stories – some short, some...

March 12, 2022
Sriparna Dutta
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Empowerment, Feminism and the Hardyian Fallacy

Thomas Hardy’s heroines are not victims of sexual anesthesia. Sue is quite defiant in her stating her sexual preferences and never hesitates to be vocal about it. What is...

February 26, 2022
Prof. Nandini Sahu
Short Story

A Juvenile Love Letter

Prof. Nandini talks of a love affair between a much elderly teacher and a teenage girl. What happened? Did their love fructify. An exclusive for Different Truths. It’s my...

February 5, 2022
Chaitali Sengupta
Book Review, Short Story

An Old-world Charm & Laidback Setting for Stories

Chaitali reviews, The Ghumi Days, a collection of 18 short stories, by Dr. Nabanita Sengupta. An exclusive for Different Truths. As I was leafing leisurely through The Ghumi Days, a nostalgic...

January 29, 2022
Prof. Nandini Sahu
Fiction, Novella

A Very Different Story: Man Meets Woman – I

The complexities of relationship between a man and a woman, unrevealing itself in layers, is the subject of this novella, by Prof. Nandini. Beginning this Saturday, we are serialising...

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