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April 15, 2017
Sisir K Chatterjee
Cover Story, Fairs & Festivals, Rituals & Practices

Buro Shibtola: Oracles and Miracles Prove the Prowess of Shiva till date!

Tales of oracles and miracles have survived for about two hundred years surrounding a Shiva temple, known as Buro Shib, beside the Ganga, near the port of Budge Budge,...

April 2, 2017
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

The Pebble Collector

Here’s an enigmatic fantasy fiction by Tapan. He unfolds the drama with a masterly touch. Read to know more, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. “Wow! Such...

March 27, 2017
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism

Urdu: Today and Tomorrow

Sehar talks about Urdu, the language of emotions. She talks of Ibn Safvi, an Urdu writer from Kareli, a locality in Allahabad, who was acclaimed by Agatha Christie. Here’s...

March 16, 2017
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism, History & Culture

To Urdu, with Love from Allahabad

Urdu has been an integral part of Allahabad’s vernacular heritage. The Ganga-Jamuni tahzeeb (culture) gets its name from the city of two rivers, Ganga and Yamuna, where these confluence...

March 14, 2017
Nilakshi Roy
Poem

Us, just us

Here’s an evocative love poem by Nilakshi, as we celebrate the season of fertility and bounty, with the festival of colours, in Different Truths. Will there be a time ...

March 5, 2017
Arindam Roy
Edit, Gender, Special Feature

Women Hold up Half the Sky[i]: A Special Issue on IWD 2017, in Different Truths

Different Truths (DT) has been publishing special issues and has also brought out seven Anthologies of Poems on several topics in the past. Here’s the eighth Anthology of Poems,...

March 3, 2017
Nikita Goel
Relationship & Lifestyle

Are Relationships Affected Adversely when Children Move Abroad?

Mostly, couples who settle abroad are hanging between two worlds. They are too foreign for their homeland and too foreign for the adapted country. Children living abroad suffer from identity crisis...

February 25, 2017
Different Truths
Book Club

A Window to her Dreams: Past Baggage and Turbulent Present Threaten Second Marriage

Aruna, a young divorcee, marries Bhuvan, an averagely successful young man who had a crush on her in college. Both make promises of ever after with preconceived expectations. But,...

February 24, 2017
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Gender

The Prince of Kolkata Bats for the Unsung Princesses

In its endeavour to ensure access to education for the girl-child, CRY receives support from the legendary Sourav Ganguly, who, apart from being a cricket-icon, is also a doting father to...

February 21, 2017
Sunil Kumar Banerjee
History & Culture, Politics

Musings on Martyrdom: Ibaadat sey Shahdat!

The Cellular Jail, in Port Blair, completed in 1906, is a National Memorial and a place of pilgrimage for all freedom loving people. Many today would be proud to know...

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