Bow - Different Truths

February 25, 2025
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

A Dark Love Letter: Sleet, Icicles, and Frozen Landscapes

An evocative verse by Elsy where Nature and life intertwine transcending from the individual to the cosmic sensibility, exclusively for Different Truths. Tonight, it is sleet,silently creeping downthe muted...

July 9, 2022
Smita Agarwal
Poem

At Fifty Three

Here’s a powerful poem by Smita, a personal prayer in defiance. Dear God, Idol of stone, Shaped like a phallus. And then, more often than not, ...

June 21, 2018
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Krishna Breaks the Great Bow – LXXVII

Nilanjana recounts a rale from the Bhagavatam about how Krishna broke the great bow of Kamsa. His men tried to catch Balarama and Krishna but they both took up a...

May 3, 2018
Rajinder Dutta
Defence

How We Returned from the Tunnel of Death!

The aircraft was fated for ditching, gliding straight along the channel south of the Cochin sailing club, the crew prepared for the SOP rehearsed live emergency and escape drills. As...

April 9, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Panchayat Polls in Bengal: Opposition Tries to put up a Fight against Largescale Violence Unleashed by TMC

Opposition candidates and workers from Coochbehar to South 24 Parganas were initially swept off their feet by hordes of armed TMC supporters, as their nominees tried to file nomination...

March 28, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mamata Bending the Bow to Blunt the Arrow of BJP: Bengal Challenge Frustrates Foot in Delhi

Mamata Banerjee has one foot in West Bengal, the other in New Delhi, giving her all to cobble a Third Front which is a resurrection that always fails at...

March 23, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Data Mining for Poll Started in India: Facebook can Influence, but to Limited Extent

It is possible to use Facebook data to influence Indian elections because India doesn’t have a data protection law. Therefore, anything that Cambridge Analytica does in India will be...

February 4, 2018
Tatjana Debeljacki
Cover Story, Criticism, Interview, Poem

Ibrahim Honjo: Creativity is not the Only Purpose

Creativity is not the only purpose on its own. An author seeks his work to live in people and with people as long as possible, to leave a mark...

November 10, 2017
Anumita Roy
Food

Yummy and Wholesome Yakni Pulao: A Mogul Legacy

Yakni Polao recipe was handed over to us from the Moguls. It is said to have originated in Persia. Anumita shares the recipe, in the weekly column, exclusively in...

October 4, 2017
Rakhi Surendra Kankane
Poem

The Blue Whale Game

Rakhi revisits the Blue Whale Game and its sheer madness. She ends on a hopeful and positive note, in this verse, in Different Truths. I know their name But...

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