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September 28, 2022
Subhajit Sanyal
Short Story, Special Feature

Padmavati: A Hurricane of the Heaven

A teenager, Padmavati, tried to save her pet duck, Hari, from being sacrificed at the altar of the Goddess. No one could ever imagine challenging the oppressive village landlords,...

September 27, 2022
Arindam Roy
Cover Story, Edit, History & Culture, Humour, Nostalgia, Religion

Durga’s Stature & Iconography Evolved in the Gupta Period

Arindam, our Editor-in-Chief, traces the history of Durga iconography. Historians at Allahabad Museum opine that the stature of the Goddess grew during the Gupta period. Happy reading, Happy Puja,...

September 27, 2022
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem, Religion, Special Feature

Durga, the Matri Shakti

Deeya, a feminist poet, invokes Durga, the Divine Mother, the fountainhead of Shakti (Energy), in an intense poem, as the special feature exclusively for Different Truths. The porous moon...

September 26, 2022
Arindam Roy
Fairs & Festivals, Humor, Special Feature

When Hanuman Cussed and Rama Smoked Bidi!

Arindam revisits the Ramdal and Ramlila and recalls the terrible faux pas that left Hanuman angry and cussing. He also recalls an incident that his friend, Vijay, told him in...

September 5, 2022
Arindam Roy
Short Story, Special Feature

F**k Honesty!

It’s an era when reporters are called upon to be fixers. They have to do the dirty jobs. Those who cannot, like the protagonist, Badshah, are ejected out of...

August 25, 2022
Lalee Chatterjee
Architecture & Monuments, Heritage

Nagda Nestled in Lonesome Solitude

An avid traveler and researcher, Anindita strayed from the beaten track. She decided to forgo Chittorgarh and instead chose to visit Eklinji and Nagda. Here’s a report on the choices...

August 15, 2022
Shalini Samuel
Poem

Devilish Tree / Exaggeration

The poem Devilish Tree is an aspiration towards a discrimination-free world, a casteless society. The second poem, Exaggeration, is about the poet and her world. Here are Shalini’s two poems for...

August 11, 2022
Arindam Roy
Arts

Art and Artlessness

In this part of Art Thought, Arindam seeks to differentiate art and artlessness. He quotes Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, who shows how a mathematician sees beauty in a ‘beautiful equation’. In the...

August 6, 2022
Tapati Sinha
Fiction

The Orchids

The beautiful patch of Orchids, in the neighbourhood of Neeta’s Hyderabad home, was mysterious. Rich women were vanishing. Here’s a short story by Tapati, that unfolds the mystery, exclusively in...

August 1, 2022
Shernaz Wadia
Criticism, Opinion

Blocking the Block

A critic had once said that writers worked in a harlotry medium. Writers faced double discontent – there were either too many words or none at all. When this deepens,...

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