Chest - Different Truths

December 1, 2017
Asmani Jamdar Surve
Relationship & Lifestyle

How Relevant is Internal Engineering?

When we talk about internal willingness, the term internal engineering is so relevant here. We want to make our internal machines (brain and heart) so powerfully driven by internal...

October 21, 2017
Suveera Sharma
People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

A Man in a Cage

Suveera tells us of a man living in a cage in the old part of Hong Kong, his struggle, strife, and victory, in the weekly column, exclusively in...

September 27, 2017
Neelum S. Gour
Humour, Nostalgia, Religion

Taaru-da, Kaalu-da and the Banquet Scene

Durga Pujo and plays are inseparable. Neelum recalls, tongue-in-cheek, about her grandfather’s, who directed a play, in the 1930s, in Allahabad’s oldest Colonelganj Barwari, on the very important day,...

September 10, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Crime, Human Rights, Science & Technology

Gauri Lankesh Gunned Down, Brit Paedophile Assaults Blind Children, Personal Data as Currency and Golf through Fire

Shail re-creates four news of the week gone by in verse. A fearless journalist, Gauri Lankesh, was gunned down at point blank range at her Bangalore home, by unknown...

August 14, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion, Special Feature

The Story of Krishna-Astami

On the occasion of Janma-ashtami – variously known as Krishna-Ashtami or Gokul-Ashtami – Nilanjana retells the story of the birth of Krishna. This sampurna avataar (complete incarnation) was born with all...

July 31, 2017
Tauseef Shahidi
Potpourri

I Rant in the Name of the Time

Tauseef is not here to make a victim’s cry for the fading sense of ownership in his country. He is also not here to play the argumentative Indian. Here’s...

June 23, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty, History & Culture

Body Piercings: A Modern Style that is rooted in Ancient Traditions

What many seem like a simple puncture wound may have a very emotional and personal significance to the bearer. Body modification is just one way you can express your personality and...

June 20, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Food

The Journey from the Garden to the Cup

Tea has been variously called the drink of the winners, the elixir of life, a divine herb, liquid wisdom, cup of happiness, joy, love; a friend, a healer, a...

June 13, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender, Opinion

Two Sides of a Woman: Rebellion and Submission

By subverting our politically inclined feminism, boys exploited us even further by a pretend admiration for the fact that we were breaking taboos that made us, in fact, more...

May 25, 2017
Nilakshi Roy
Poem

Loving You

Here’s an intense love poem by Nilakshi, in Different Truths, that catalogues her love. Let me talk of love… Of Fossil fragrance Of rock-hard chest Of ponytailed haze...

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