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May 8, 2023
Tapati Sinha
Environment, Literature, Special Feature, Tribute

Nature and Environment as seen by Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore’s love of Nature was extremely subtle. For him the wide-open skies, spaciousness, and tranquillity of the countryside symbolised freedom. His numerous writings reveal the intensity of his relationship with...

April 26, 2023
Martins Tommyson
Poem

The Sun-god at Mount Horeb

An evocative poem to Nature – a prayer to the Sun-god – showing the deep connect with the heavenly bodies in African culture by Martins, for Different Truths. Sun-godsitting still...

April 22, 2023
Sukanya Juno Biswas
Environment

Let’s Begin Small on Earth Day

Each of us is responsible to cut down senseless wastage of resources. It’s important that we save water, conserve energy, recycle and avoid the use of plastic. Sukanya, in a...

April 17, 2023
Shernaz Wadia
Science & Technology

The Interconnectedness of all Things

Our columnist, Shernaz finds an interconnectedness in various aspects of life. We are not just interconnected, we are interdependent and to take it further ‘we inter-are’, ‘interbeings’ as the...

April 12, 2023
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

Azalea

Here’s a poem about the spring flowers, Azalea, by Elsy, in Different Truths. Azalea, your magenta clusters make me muse on your amazing regalia. “We wait all winter for...

April 11, 2023
Tapati Sinha
Folk Stories, History & Culture

Fables are Never Too Old

The continuity of the oral tradition attested by The Fox and the Crow story found on the pottery of Mohenjo-Daro and Lothal archaeological sites of a civilisation six thousand...

December 5, 2022
Sushmita Gupta
Poem

Breathing Underwater

An evocative love poem by Sushmita. It was forbidden, To fall in love, With you. I belonged, To another. But that, Sunday afternoon, When, The sun was mild, The...

September 30, 2022
Sumita Dutta
Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

Durga Puja: A Five-day Extravaganza of Food, Feast, Fun, and Frolic

Eyes closed, each of us disappears into our own consciousness where we perhaps see a beloved departed parent or remember a past when they stood above us uttering these...

September 27, 2022
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem, Religion, Special Feature

Durga, the Matri Shakti

Deeya, a feminist poet, invokes Durga, the Divine Mother, the fountainhead of Shakti (Energy), in an intense poem, as the special feature exclusively for Different Truths. The porous moon...

July 19, 2022
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Water Split into Atoms of Civilisation

In this enigmatic poem, Deeya explores the many forms and manifestations of water – an exclusive for Different Truths. Water can be split into atoms Of civilisation, by birth...