Post - Different Truths

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...

October 7, 2016
Champa Srinivasan
Fairs & Festivals, Special Feature

Children and Durga Puja: The Joys of Puja Shopping

Champa recalls that every Biswakarma Puja day, year after year, their family routine would be same. After the ritualistic kite flying session in the morning and a sumptuous lunch, Baba would...

October 6, 2016
Arindam Roy
Announcement, Special Feature

Durga Puja: The Conflict and Contestations between Vidya and Avidya

In the curtain raiser on Durga Puja special feature, Arindam traces the genesis of the global celebrations of the Shakti puja. Shakti or Energy, is invoked during both the equinoxes. Durga...

October 6, 2016
Sreelata Menon
Humor

A Comedy of Errors

Sreelata shares the trials and tribulations of a short vacation at Jaipur. With her husband and a five-year- old, the bus journey between Delhi and Jaipur began. Read the tongue...

October 6, 2016
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, Health

Dementia: The New Age Dementor

Dementia is a condition that describes a set of symptoms that may include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language. Dementia is caused when the brain is damaged by...

October 5, 2016
Lily Swarn
Travel & Food

A Slice of Army Life in the Serenity of Pune

In 1817, the third Anglo-Maratha war broke out between the British East India Company and the Marathas. The Peshwas were defeated in Khadkee, called Khirkee, by the British, and the city,...

October 4, 2016
Saheli Mitra
Gender, Rituals & Practices

An Open Letter of a Sex Worker to Goddess Durga

Goddess Durga’s idol made during Durga Puja is incomplete without the soil from the house of a sex worker. The belief is that the soil should be begged for...

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