Sita Archives - Different Truths

February 16, 2023
Dr Jyothsnaphanija
Poem

My Grandmother Sita

Dr Jyothsnaphanija reminisces about her grandmother’s incomplete life and distant times in this poignant poem – exclusively for Different Truths. Days of festivities made her energetic. She takes me...

March 7, 2022
Mitali Chakravarty
Poem

Potent Garden Tales

A woman-centric poem by Mitali, wherein she talks of women from Indian and Western mythologies. A Special Feature for International Women’s Day. Each garden weaves a new story. The...

May 17, 2019
Neelam Saxena Chandra
Literature, Poem

An Ode to Ravana

Neelam Saxena ChandraNeelam Saxena, author of 84 books, holds three Limca Book of Records titles. She has received prestigious honours, including the Sohanlal Dwivedi Puraskar from the Maharashtra State...

May 12, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Karnataka Polls: Some Things are Unstoppable as Karnataka Shows How Politics is Poison

Temples and mutts hardened stance weeks ago and no visits to temples in foreign climes will change voter preference so late in the day. Saturday (May 12, 2018), cash...

March 28, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mamata Bending the Bow to Blunt the Arrow of BJP: Bengal Challenge Frustrates Foot in Delhi

Mamata Banerjee has one foot in West Bengal, the other in New Delhi, giving her all to cobble a Third Front which is a resurrection that always fails at...

March 27, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mainstreaming Religious Politics can be Tricky

It is only now when the BJP has succeeded in exploiting the Congress’s mishandling of the secular concept that the latter is trying to erase the image of being...

March 21, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Unwise to Choose Paper Ballot over EVM: Congress Wants to Turn the Clock Back

The Congress Party’s call for dispensing with EVMs is a retrograde step in a digital age when even 10/12-year-olds are more familiar with smartphones than their parents. The harking...

March 10, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Yechury is Better Placed to Push his Line at Party Congress in April

The CPI(M) must make it clear at the Party Congress that effective action to take on BJP means all-out unity of the anti-BJP forces including the Congress. The option...

February 14, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Islamabad Shaken by Pashtun Resurgence: Traumatised by Terrorism, Racial Profiling

The Pashtun resurgence, hyphenated from political parties, is the expression of a new identity politics. Anger got accumulated out of individual and collective experiences of Pashtuns in the distinct...

February 8, 2018
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Krishna is Crowned Govinda – LXI

Nilanjana retells the story of how Krishna was crowned as Govinda, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Sukha moved on to the next story, “After all the...