Caught in a Web!
The protagonist of Kunal Basu’s Kalkatta inhabits the world that we happily deny. Baishali asks, “With a dingy box for a home, an ailing old man for a father, a crippled...
How to Overcome the ‘Double Discontent’ of Style!
Different Truths’ fashion consultant and style consultant, Susmita, gives some handy tips on how to pair your traditional saree-blouse ensemble, with a little imagination and lots of panache. Speaking of...
San Bernardino Carnage: Whose Life is it Anyway!
Guns kill people. But the NRA relies heavily on the support of the $12-billion-a-year gun industry, made up of manufacturers and sellers of firearms, ammunition and related wares. That alliance...
Two Dark Poems
Different Truths introduces poems from this issue. Ratan pens two dark poems that deal with hatred, violence and deaths, unleashing untold miseries that men in the supreme ignorance bring...
Chennai Deluge: Bring us Some Sunshine!
Soggy Chennai is drowning. While the print media turns a Nelson eye to the plight of the people in the southern city, for the TV channels it’s a tamasha, a...
Dr Rupa Mehta, Different Truth’s Agony Aunt
We are happy to announce that Dr Rupa Mehta has consented to be one of the Agony Aunts of Different Truths. She delivers therapy and other treatments to adult and adolescents...
Three Books
Different Truths is introducing Book Club. If you are a busy corporate honcho, an executive-on-the-move, banker or homemaker, with little time to spare, you may send short book reviews...
The Fervor and Gaiety at Pushkaram Festival
Pushkaram festival is an auspicious fair-festival celebrated in Andhra Pradesh and Telengana states, every twelve years. During the Pushkaram festival devotees brave various difficulties. They rush to observe the holy tradition....
My long-lost Cousin Mithu: A Tribute to Innocence
Bhaswati walks down the memory lane. She recalls her association with her cousin, Mithu, in a soulful account. The title is a misleading, because she was never lost, and it...
Sick by Birth
Was the Early Man, living naked in caves and treetops, more civilised than most of us? We have clothed ourselves differently and have created a chasm between us and our...