I Forget…
Humourist Soumya takes a jibe at himself for his forgetfulness, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Being absentminded is the privilege of the genius. We hear stories...
Did You Know Me?
A heart-wrenching poem of lost love, of a marriage failing after 22 years. The agony of separation has been poignantly portrayed by Elsy in this verse, for Different Truths. That...
Bina Pillai, Everything but an Underling
Bina Pillai is someone who was vetoed out of her graduation but she remained staunch in the face of adversity. She clung onto her dream to write and ultimately...
Balraj Sahni, Anushka Sharma and Satyajit Ray Celebrate Birthdays on May 1 and 2
While Satyajit Ray, the God of Cinema, was born on May 2, Balraj Sahni, who lived the characters he portrayed with realism, shares his birthday with bubbly, bouncy Anushka...
Balraj Sahni, An Activist Writer-Actor, believed a Good Actor is a Good Person
Two films, Do Bigha Zamin and Garam Hawa, are enough to showcase the acting range of this versatile actor, Balraj Sahni. The pathos of the farmer entrapped in the...
Where is the 11th Panchen Lama Missing for the last 22 years?
Within three days of the identification of 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima recognised by His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, the child was kidnapped by the Chinese forces...
On Writing: Is Destruction Necessary for Creation?
The dynamics of creative writing has often eluded writers (poets included). In response to Jeanette Winterson, advice on writing, “Experiment, play, throw away,” Abha, an author of repute, talks...
Three Aries, Bindu, Arshad Warsi and Babita Braved Odds, Emerged Victorious
Bindu, Arshad Warsi, and Babita, three well-known Aries actors, whose birthdays are in the coming week, have one thing in common. All of them had to face difficult situations....
The Impact of Herbert Spencer on Thomas Hardy
Herbert Spencer’s influence on Thomas Hardy is palpable with reference to the novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Spencer saw ‘the minds of men and the forms of society’ in...
The Other Side of Silence: Crisis of Identity for no Institutional Religion – II
In the second and concluding part of the column, Basudeb tells us how Urvashi Butalia’s novel, The Other Side of Silence, shows that the writer’s Ranamama at Lahore stayed...