Cream - Different Truths

December 11, 2017
Alisha Phillips
Food, Potpourri

Sprinkle-some Baking Winters!

Talking about winters feels exactly like talking about good food. It’s the same happiness, it’s the same kind of love. The temperature scales are dropping and the blankets...

December 3, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Book Extract, Fiction

The Heart of Donna Rai – I

Here’s a book extract from the forthcoming novel of Sumita, who writes under the penname ‘Shoam’. It is a coming of age story of a thirteen-year-old girl, set just before...

November 24, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Beauty, Fashion, Health

Sleep and Face Cream Myths – II

Here’re some beauty tips from our fashionista, Shameena. This is the second part of the three-part series on sleep, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The cellular...

November 24, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Food, History & Culture

Potatoes on My Plate!

Ruchira tells us about the antiquity and history of potatoes and its varied uses, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I am a non-vegetarian, by default, since...

November 23, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Kaliya and Krishna – L

Nilanjana retells the story of Krishna slaying the mighty poisonous snake, Kaliya, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. “Krishna jumped into the poisonous waters?” Parikshit said. “Oh,...

November 8, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

The Journey of Halva to India

No one is exactly sure when halva, the dish or its name travelled south and east to Syria, Lebanon, the Gulf states and then to Afghanistan, finally reaching India....

November 5, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Fiction

Vanished – I

Sumita tells us an engrossing story, in two parts. Here’s the first part, a horror-humour, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Dainagri: Police and government officials admit their...

October 31, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Poem

Tolling Time

An intense poem by Sumita about her father, in Different Truths. He was the most handsome Once upon a time. Broad shoulders, carved biceps; A high diving gymnast Twirling...

October 27, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Poem

The Tadpoles Did Not See

Here’s a poem by Sumita that celebrates nature, the playful innocence of girls, memory, and identity, in Different Truths. The surface rippled, Three pairs of feet plopped in And...

October 21, 2017
Lata Pall
Book Launch, Criticism, Poem

The Fire Within

Lata reports about a book launch of Neelam Saxena Chanda and picks the mind of the able poet-writer, exclusively in Different Truths. Neelam Saxena Chandra, a bureaucrat, a thinker,...

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