Special Feature - Different Truths

October 9, 2016
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Fairs & Festivals, Poem, Special Feature

Durga Ma: My Celestial Mother

Anoucheka turns her gaze inwards and seeks answers from Durga of how she would fulfil her promises in this world of false pleasures. Here’s a poem for the Durga Puja...

October 9, 2016
Lily Swarn
Fairs & Festivals, Rituals & Practices, Special Feature

I met Goddess Durga as an Army Wife in Bengal and the Gorkha Regiment

The Durga Puja celebrations in Bengal were definitely very memorable as a perceptible aura of vivacity and verve presided over the holy and divine solemnity. Ladies dressed in their traditional attire...

October 9, 2016
Deeya Bhattacharya
Fairs & Festivals, Poem, Special Feature

Devi: The Demon Slayer

In this poem, Deeya invokes the demon slayer, who with thousand hands slew evil and darkness. An evocative poem for the Durga Puja special feature, in Different Truths. With thousand...

October 9, 2016
Sonali Chakraborty
Fairs & Festivals, Food, Rituals & Practices, Special Feature

Celebrate Durga Puja with the Delicious Bengali Sweet Roshomalai

Sweets and Bengalis are synonymous. The Bongs are known for the roshogollas all over the world. This recipe takes the Bengali favorite roshogolla to a notch higher. Bengali Roshomalai is made...

October 8, 2016
Anumita Roy
Fairs & Festivals, People, Special Feature

Bangaliyana: A Search and Assertion of the Bengali Identity on Foreign Lands

Bangaliyana is the search for the composite Bengali identity in distant lands. It’s not just the clothes, food, music, adda, humour or language but something much deeper. Durga Puja is...

October 8, 2016
Deeya Bhattacharya
Fairs & Festivals, Poem, Special Feature

Devi

Deeya opens our eyes to the dehumanisation of Devi, the girl and woman, who is sadly powerless. She is killed in the womb, is deflowered. She slaves to earn...

October 8, 2016
Champa Srinivasan
Fairs & Festivals, Rituals & Practices, Special Feature

Navarathri Celebrations in Tamil Nadu

The prevalent custom during this nine-day long period is to decorate the homes with toys and idols, preferably of different Gods and Goddesses. But many ‘non-Godly’ idols made of clay, wood...

October 8, 2016
Maya Khandelwal
Fairs & Festivals, Poem, Special Feature

Ma Durga

Maya prays to the Mother Goddess, the one who had slain the powerful demon kings, Shumbha and Nishumbha. Here’s a poem for the Durga Puja special feature, in Different Truths. Spurred...

October 7, 2016
Lily Swarn
Fairs & Festivals, Poem, Special Feature

Invocation to Mahishasuramardini

Lily invokes the slayer of the buffalo-demon, Mahisasuramardani in this verse for the Durga Puja special feature, in Different Truths. O Cosmic energy incarnate Hail Shakti, Sati, Kali, Parvati Hail...

October 7, 2016
Neeti Banga
Fairs & Festivals, Fashion & Beauty, Special Feature

This Durga Puja be the Goddess you are!

Durga Puja without Bengalis sounds so incomplete. It’s the Bengali community that adds additional flavour, style and zing to this auspicious puja with their exceptional vibrancy and colours! It is this beautiful festival...

subscribe