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June 6, 2022
Dr. Sudipta Mishra
Gender, Religion

Savitri Brata: Shouldn’t a Husband Fast for His Wife?

Dr. Sudipta examines the rituals of Savitri Brata, where a wife – millions of them – fast for the long life and prosperity of her husband. Shouldn’t husbands fast...

March 13, 2022
Chirantan Sarkar
Cinema, Gender, Politics, Special Feature

A Narrative on Women, Feminism, Sexuality and Politics in Contemporary India

Sonia Gandhi’s unperturbed state in her husband’s funeral is acceptable to the urban and sophisticated Indians as Sonia Gandhi is cloning a ‘male’ behavior and thus striving to achieve...

March 12, 2022
Sriparna Dutta
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Empowerment, Feminism and the Hardyian Fallacy

Thomas Hardy’s heroines are not victims of sexual anesthesia. Sue is quite defiant in her stating her sexual preferences and never hesitates to be vocal about it. What is...

January 6, 2022
Sutapa Basu
Novella, Special Feature

Black Magic

With grit, faith and hard work, she built a whole new world for herself literally out of thin air. But when Jharna was attacked by the forces of Evil, will...

January 3, 2022
Olaitan Maryam Mojisola
Short Story

Endless Sleep / Five Decades of Red Roses

An open-ended short story from Nigerian author, Olaitan. The quaint mystery heightens the tragedy in Endless Sleep. The second story, Five Decades of Red Roses, is a flashback account of the...

December 23, 2021
Anika Ghei
Fiction, Special Feature

The Pious Infidel

Intolerance and hatred have existed with its opposite in the public spheres. Here’s Anika’s historical short fiction, in the regular column, exclusively in Different Truths. He was Nizam to us....

July 22, 2021
Madhuri Bhattacharya
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Growing Up in Wilderness: African Stories of Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing was born to British parents, Alfred Taylor and Maud Me Veigh, in 1919. After the First World War, her father migrated to Africa and purchased three thousand...

July 6, 2021
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

A Foodie Cooks his Goose

Here’s an interesting account by Soumya, a humourist, on cooking, exclusively on Different Truths. I am a foodie. My girth hints at it. I take a keen interest in...

May 10, 2021
Nilakshi Roy
Fiction, Films, Special Feature, Tribute

Tagore, Ray and Basu: The Broken Nest, Charulata, and Stories from Rabindranath Tagore

There are many admirers of Satyajit Ray’s film, Charulata (1964), which is often seen as a retelling of the story of Rabindranath Tagore’s own time spent with his elder brother...

September 25, 2018
Swapna Behera
Short Story, Special Feature

A Gold Watch of the Bishop, a Stick of the Gardener and the Train

A Bishop had blamed the son of the gardener for stealing his gold wristwatch. The gardener too had beaten his son blue-black. Was the boy a thief? A story...

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