childhood - Different Truths

August 26, 2016
Anumita Roy
Food

Delicious Arepa: Quintessential Venezuelan Food – I

The food that we eat in our childhood is almost always our comfort food. It brings back memories of our carefree days. Anumita spent a part of her childhood in...

July 12, 2016
Saheli Mitra
Potpourri

Monsoon Memories: A Letter to Paper Boat

The essential romantic in us celebrates and serenades the rain. Blue Eve reminisces the monsoon, days of torrential rains, her little paper boat and more. She walks down the...

June 23, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

The Scab

An intense love poem by Lopamudra. Crush me like old dust between your palms, Let me burn in sulphur flames amid those burning grains. I want to die, the...

June 17, 2016
Arindam Roy
Announcement

The Many Manifestations of Father

Arindam explores the various meanings and manifestations of fatherhood ahead of the Father’s Day. He presents a preview of the special feature on this occasion in Different Truths. Through seven pieces,...

June 17, 2016
Anumita Roy
Potpourri

A Letter to my Younger Sister about our Father

Anumita, in her letter to Bon (younger sister), talks about their life and times with their Baba (father). The author moves from the present to the past, reminiscing their childhood...

June 11, 2016
Shruti Nagvanshi
Cover Story, Human Rights

Over 55 Million Children in India Labour but Sleep Hungry

Despite legislations and protests by Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailsh Satyarthi, activists like Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi and NGOs like PVCHR, over 55 million children in India are doomed. They are made...

May 7, 2016
Arindam Roy
Potpourri

One Life, Many Mothers

Arindam pays a tribute to his many mothers on Mother’s Day. He also tells us of a man with 81 mothers. “How can he have so many mothers?” A divisional...

May 2, 2016
Dr. Barnali Bhattacharya
Health

Bronchial Asthma in Children

Asthma is on the rise globally because of urbanisation, industrialisation, environmental pollution and global warming. Globally there are about 150 million asthmatics, of which 50% are children. In India...

December 7, 2015
Madhumita Ghosh
Cover Story, History & Culture, Lifestyle, Potpourri

Landscape Gardening: My Style

Madhumita talks of her passion, Landscape Gardening. She takes us through the history of gardening. She tells us how her M. Phil studies drew her into gardening. She showcases how...

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