Cinema - Different Truths

October 18, 2021
Dr. Swaraj Raj
Cinema, Music, Poem

Celebrating Saawan in Songs

Dr. Swaraj celebrates the beauty of Sawaan, in his seminal article, exploring its nuances in Hindi film and non-film songs, other than cultural overtures. An exclusive for Different Truths....

October 16, 2021
Shail Raghuvanshi
Animal Rights, Cinema, Gender, News, Poem, Religion, Sports

The Gender-Neutral Game, Drug Storm in Bollywood, A Dog’s Life, & Fake Belief Brought to Justice

Laced with wit and humour, Shail looks at the recent news to cast these in verse, be it the world of cricket which is becoming progressively gender-neutral, drugs in...

August 4, 2021
Amanita Sen
Beauty, Cinema, Health, Psychoanalysis

Mental Health and the Politics of Skin Colour

Amanita takes a hard look at body shaming and associated mental health problems. These range from serious eating disorders to low self esteem to suicides. Fairness and the politics...

May 4, 2021
Soumya Mukherjee
Cinema, Humour, Literature

Bard Blues!

Soumya recounts his encounter with the Bard, with wit and humour, exclusively for Different Truths. My first encounter with the Bard was in a children’s book called Tales from Shakespeare by...

April 2, 2021
Gopa Bhattacharjee
Cinema, Short Story

The Secret Diary of Paroma

Paroma belongs to the typical North Kolkata joint family household with in-laws. She pens down her feelings to her only friend ‘The Diary’. Here’s the story by Gopa, exclusively...

March 25, 2021
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Cinema, Criticism

Bengali Flicks Based on Shakespeare’s Plays Botched up

Ruchira reviews some Bengali films based on and inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. These have been botched up, she opines. An exclusive for Different Truths. More than five hundred years...

January 19, 2021
Shivani Singh
Cinema, Relationship & Lifestyle

Less is More: An Insight into Minimalism

The documentary, Minimalism, helped Shivani understand how less is more. She shares the insights with us, exclusively for Different Truths. Scrolling through a couple of documentaries, I came across...

January 7, 2021
Utpal Dutta
Cinema, Films, Poem

Prose-Poetry of Three Kolkata Girls

Utpal, a celebrated film director from the Northeast, reviews Kolkata Cocktail, a poetry film, by the music-and-film director, Shuvayu Bhattacharya. It is a new fortnightly column that begins this...

October 10, 2020
Dr. Nabanita Sengupta
Cinema, Films, Gender, Reviews

Problematics of Representation of Women: Shakuntala Devi and Gunjan Saxena

Two recent movies, both biopics on women, have once more brought the focus on the importance of the art of storytelling in films. The representation of women is wanting,...

September 15, 2020
Soumya Mukherjee
Cinema

Boys Don’t Cry

A friend posted a video on relationships with parents. It reminded Soumya of this story. An exclusive for Different Truths. This is one maxim that made life difficult for...

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