Lakshmi: Maid for Each Other!
Poornima talks of two Lakshmis, a Goddess, and a maid. One ever smiling, seated on a throne, while the other, toiling hard, very worried. A poignant poem, in Different...
What Would Happen if Suddenly, Magically, Men Menstruate and Women Could Not?
Male-female role reversals have intrigued most of us. In a 1978 satire for Ms. Magazine, feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem answered the question that so many women have asked: “What would happen,...
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...
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...
The Pros and Cons of Raising a Child in India
Nikita talks about the pros and cons of raising a child in India vis-à-vis the US (and other western countries). Read more in the regular column, exclusively in Different...
Bad to the Bone: Everything You Need to Know about Osteoporosis – I
Kolkata-based Rita, who works with the elders, tells us about a geriatric problem, osteoporosis. Here’s part one of her write-up. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different...
How the Tanned Bronzed Skin of Gabrielle Chanel came into Vogue!
The change in attitude towards sunbathing and tanning is closely related to a sartorial shift towards shorter hemlines and less restrictive corsets, as well as the embrace of pleasurable...
A Retrospective of Concern for Human Values: Letters to Namdeo Dhasal by Chandramohan S
Chandramohan’s poems portray subaltern life with exactitude and his concern for human values is quite evident in almost all poems in this collection. Poem after poem one can sense...
Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Putana – XXXII
Nilanjana recounts the tale of Putana and how she was slain by child Krishna, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Putana was loyal to her king, Kamsa....