verse - Different Truths

January 7, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Films, History & Culture, Opinion

Padmini in the Ocean of Controversies

Padmini’s narrative has found itself being retold in several ways over several centuries, in the form of poems, stories, dance dramas, comic books, plays, and films. Each retelling is...

December 24, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Business, Crime, Films, Lifestyle, Pet Care, Poem, Sports

Virat and Anushka Wed, Panda Creates Toilet Paper, Burger King Fined for Child Labour, Camel Hospital Opens in Dubai, and Tribals Show the Way

Over 18-odd tribal couples kissed in the presence of thousands of people in Dumaria village, in Jharkhand, in a never-seen-before competition. Simon Marandi, a Jharkhand Mukti Morcha legislator, who...

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 20, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Poem

A Glass of Milk was Spilled Today

Here is a ballad from Sumita, wherein the storyteller-poet tells an interesting tale, in Different Truths. A glass of milk was spilled one day. Mother yelled and Sunny froze,...

December 16, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Business, Economy, International Relations, Politics

Will the Emergence of the Left in Nepal Erode Indo-Nepal Friendship to Benefit China Strategically?

That China has been assiduously wooing Kathmandu has been all too clear but that the people of Nepal would turn away from India through the democratic process was not...

December 15, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Travel & Food

An Oasis of Serenity: Buddhist Stupa at Sanchi

Ruchira tells us about Sanchi, a famous Buddhist site, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I had first read about the place in my New Horizon English...

December 14, 2017
Tarun Gupta
Business, Economy

How Interests Rate Affect us?

India is going through a slowdown, as 4% real interest rate is making people to go slow on consumption. The government’s need to cut down on fiscal deficit is...

December 14, 2017
Bushra Alvi Razzack
Poem

The Culprit

A powerful protest poem by Bushra. Here we see the poet as a Social Journalist, in Different Truths. My poem, The Culprit, was written when I was in the...

December 11, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Gender, Parenting

The Womb Mates

When the kids become parents themselves then only they discover their parents’ awesomeness. The mother-daughter bond strengthens when the daughter becomes a radiant expectant mother. She trusts her mother implicitly...

November 20, 2017
Arun Dash
Poem

Those Industrious Palms

Arun tells us about city life, in this verse, in Different Truths. The gush of light coming Through the window, The chirping of the birds, The bell of the...

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