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October 1, 2022
Rajini Sankar
Fairs & Festivals, Rituals & Practices, Special Feature

Pan-India Navaratri Celebrations with Special Reference to South India

takes an overview of the Navaratri celebrations in Gujarat, Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka – a comparative study. It’s a predominantly women-dominated festival, celebrating Shakti. Navratri is celebrated by observing fast and...

June 26, 2018
Dr. Paramita Mukherjee Mullick
History & Culture, Travel & Food

The Ancient Walled City

The walls around Toledo are an example of one of the most fortified complex systems of the Middle Ages in Europe. It is one of the oldest cities of...

February 6, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

When Names Determine the Sex!

Humourist Soumya tells us the gender confusion that names create, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. In the days before gender identity became infra dig and when...

October 24, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender

Sexism and Literature

Payal relooks at classics and popular comics to find how sexist in content these are, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Recently, I decided to recycle through...

October 8, 2016
Champa Srinivasan
Fairs & Festivals, Rituals & Practices, Special Feature

Navarathri Celebrations in Tamil Nadu

The prevalent custom during this nine-day long period is to decorate the homes with toys and idols, preferably of different Gods and Goddesses. But many ‘non-Godly’ idols made of clay, wood...

Pan-India Navaratri Celebrations with Special Reference to South India

The Ancient Walled City

When Names Determine the Sex!

Sexism and Literature

Navarathri Celebrations in Tamil Nadu

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