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September 30, 2022
Sudeshna Mukherjee
Fairs & Festivals, Short Story, Special Feature

How Little Adrija Battled an Evil Uncle!

Durga Puja brings joy and gaiety. Children and local artistes participate in plays, dance dramas and other cultural extravaganzas. Adrija, the protagonist, too was busy rehearsing a dance drama...

September 28, 2022
Subhajit Sanyal
Short Story, Special Feature

Padmavati: A Hurricane of the Heaven

A teenager, Padmavati, tried to save her pet duck, Hari, from being sacrificed at the altar of the Goddess. No one could ever imagine challenging the oppressive village landlords,...

September 27, 2022
Anumita Roy
Fiction, Humour, Religion, Short Story, Special Feature

Mishap Trip of Durga

Durga, an NRI, flies to her parents’ home, with her four children, in Kolkata, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Anumita humanises Durga and her children, with sparkling wit, in this...

September 17, 2022
Mitra Samal
Short Story

Mitra explores relationships, social realities, and sacrifices. Guddu, a canteen boy, is no exception. Find out what happens in this short story, exclusively for Different Truths. Our engineering college was...

September 5, 2022
Arindam Roy
Short Story, Special Feature

F**k Honesty!

It’s an era when reporters are called upon to be fixers. They have to do the dirty jobs. Those who cannot, like the protagonist, Badshah, are ejected out of...

July 30, 2022
Dr. Ranjana Sharan Sinha
Short Story

A Discoloured Rainbow

Dr Ranjana explores the various layers of human relationships, wishes, longings and disappointments with sensitivity – exclusively for Different Truths. The retired life of Mr Sharma was in search...

July 23, 2022
Anumita Roy
Short Story

Doomed in Love

Is love doomed? Is Rudra cursed? Here’s a soulful short story by Anumita. Her eyebrows were not really arched; they were more like wings with the little black bindi...

May 28, 2022
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Fiction, Short Story

Gabriel Garcia Marquez & the Art of Surviving Rejection

Here’s a radical fiction by Dr. Sunil, wherein he reimagines Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s writings and the strategy of surviving rejection. An exclusive for Different Truths. “Sir?” The man smiled. “I...

March 13, 2022
Nilakshi Roy
Gender, Short Story, Special Feature

…And Two Women Suffered

She was a slim, tall, elegant woman, too pretty to be a cook in our house, but as she was not very young, my mother kept her immediately. She...

March 12, 2022
Dr. Tripti Sharan
Gender, History & Culture, Religion, Short Story, Special Feature

The Flickering Diyas

Tripti retells the Ramayana from Sita’s point of view. Here’s Sita’s agony that was perhaps never told in a patriarchal epic, as the special feature on International Women’s Day, exclusively for...

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