Jaya Jaya Ganapathy
Delhi-based Ruchira tells us about the ten-day Ganesha Utsava that begins on Friday, Aug 25. We are introducing a new weekly column, every Friday. A special feature, here’s a...
Feisty, Controversial and Soft Porn Writer Shobha De showcases Multi-dimensional Images of Indian Elitist Women in her Novels
Controversial and feisty novelist Shobha De. She wears many hats, a model, magazine editor, wife, mother, columnist, a celebrity in the world of journalism, a commentator on various social...
Getting Married: A Sudh Filmy Romance
Humourist Soumya tells us all about the trial and tribulations of a Bong getting married to a Sardar girl, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Having posted...
Three Signs you might be Nurturing a Psychopath
Ritambhara tells us the three telltale signs of a psychopath, exclusively in Different Truths. There are no classes in schools and colleges on how to safeguard from miscreants and...
Tantra: Material World and its Experiences for Attaining Enlightenment
Satyananda Yoga believes that Tantra is a collective title, which covers a vast range of practical teachings leading to the expansion of human consciousness and the liberation of primal...
Novelist Manju Kapur Exposes the Reality of Generation Gap after 1947
Basudeb features Manju Kapur, a post-1947 novelist, an important feminist writer. He critiques her novels, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. One of the most important features of...
Air Travel Becoming Awesome: Hats Off to Technologies!
Farheen tells us how technology is making air travel much easier these days. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Air travel is one of the...
The Housewife in the Dustbin
Payal traces the etymology of the housewife pointing out that feminists find it derogatory. She advocates for ungendered terminology to chuck the word, housewife, in the dustbin. Here’s her...
Gita Mehta: Exposing the Commodification of the Millennium-old Indian Values by the West
Gita Mehta’s fictional writings are a revolt against the Western way of looking at Indian life and culture. An important post-colonial Indian woman writer, she is dogma free to...
The Wedding
Humourist Soumya takes a dig at the cross-cultural wedding of a Bong and a Punjabi. The cultural differences were sharply magnified to the woes of each side – later...