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May 23, 2018
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand
Criticism, Poem

A Remarkable Horizontal Vastness and a Rare Vertical Depth in the Poetry of Basudeb Chakraborti – IV

Basudeb Chakraborti’s poetry has a remarkable horizontal vastness and a rare vertical depth. His poetry concerns itself with all the essential aspects of life and one feels the imprint...

May 22, 2018
Mamta Joshi
Cinema, Music

Music and the Cusp between Day and Night: Songs on Dusk from the Fifties to the Seventies

Music and poetry have been beautifully wedded in the songs of dusk in Hindi film songs where words become perfect pegs to showcase music aesthetically. The collapse of the...

May 15, 2018
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Cry of Little Asifa…

An evocative protest poem by Sarala, exclusively for Different Truths Paint me and my sorrow In black and grey In your hearts I live In the darkness, I cry ...

May 13, 2018
Anumita Roy
Cover Story, Gender, Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Feature, Tribute

One Less Ma

The trials and tribulations of staying far away from homeland are many. Our Managing Editor, Anumita, shares the grief of losing one of her Mas (mothers). Here’s her soulful...

April 19, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Cinema, Profile, Tribute

Charlie Chaplin: The Tragicomic Tramp Who Won Many Hearts Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977), an English comic actor, better known as Charlie Chaplin, is the greatest comedian that the cine world has...

February 15, 2018
Anumita Roy
Crime, Parenting

Florida High School Shootout: Are School Children Meant to Die Senselessly, asks a Mother

If we look at the statistics of gun violence in schools, it is a staggering data of numbers. Since 2013, there have been 290 incidents in which a gun...

January 10, 2018
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Poem

Hearty Heaves

Here’s an intense and inward-looking love poem by Anouchika, for Different Truths. I bit my lips hard and faced Love Love, bold and pretentious Mindless of my heart’s tidal...

December 30, 2017
Sutapa Basu
Book Review, Creative Writing, Potpourri

Kaleidoscope 2017

An eminent writer, Sutapa, whose talked-about book is soaring the bestsellers charts tells us about her journey in the year that was. She also shares her review about some of the...

December 23, 2017
Devraj Singh Kalsi
Book Extract, Fiction

Grief

Bibi Amrit, fondly called Biji, doubled her thunderous output on realising that she had an opportunity to overpower Nasib, to show the train of mourners that a mother’s grief...

December 5, 2017
Arun Dash
Poem

I Love my Sips of Sorrow

A lyrical poem by Arun, that’s inward-looking, in Different Truths. I love my sips of sorrow For, when they get in, They engulf me in a cocoon That happiness...