Draupadi - Different Truths

June 24, 2024
Tapati Sinha
Cover Story, Health, History & Culture, Opinion

The Game of Life and Death…

The concept of ‘good death’ (euthanasia) existed in the ancient world. Medical assistance was not needed when the Homeric warrior died as a hero and was expected to accept...

March 11, 2022
Different Truths Poets
Gender, Poem, Special Feature

Still I Rise: IWD 2018, Anthology of Poems

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2018, Different Truths Poets present an anthology of poems, celebrating the woman, in paroxysms of emotions, enigmatic and multilayered, like...

March 8, 2022
Dr. Navodita Pande
Gender, Special Feature

Sheroes in Indian Mythology: Examples for Contemporary Women

Navodita tells us about the sheroes in Indian mythology, who are examples for the contemporary women. Here she talks of two such protagonists Savitri and Radha, ‘modern’ in their approaches then...

June 19, 2021
Dr. Shikha Chatterjee
Poem

Wondrous Women

Dr. Shikha celebrates womanhood. She remembers the sheroes, in this poem, exclusively for Different Truths. A desperate Savitri defying the curse of death Forced the unheeding Yam to revive...

February 9, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mahabharata over Ramayana in Rajya Sabha

Congress MPs are pulling out handcuffs and seeking arrests, so to speak, possibly that of PM if he admits that he meant Shoorpanaka when he spoke of the Ramayana...

February 2, 2018
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty

The Enchanting Story of the Indian Sari – I

In today’s India, there are 6.5 million people involved in the production of handloom saris. Although the structure of saris is mostly the same, Indian woman have much room...

January 7, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Films, History & Culture, Opinion

Padmini in the Ocean of Controversies

Padmini’s narrative has found itself being retold in several ways over several centuries, in the form of poems, stories, dance dramas, comic books, plays, and films. Each retelling is...

January 17, 2017
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Economy, People, Politics

Cumulative Shocks: Why do the RBI Officials Feel Humiliated?

Bhaskar tells us that some of the RBI officials are unrelenting, however, for ‘feeling humiliated’ by the events, since demonetisation. They wrote to newly appointed (read fixed) RBI Governor, Urjit Patel,...

December 13, 2016
Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Sports

Akashganga: A new Star in the Galaxy – X

Gomes worked silently to convert into reality the ambitions and aspirations of the illustrious predecessors – to make an Air force Skydiving Display Team. The go-ahead strangely came from the...

December 8, 2016
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: The Curse – III

Nilanjana retells the stories from the Srimad Bhagavatam, bringing alive the essential Indian wisdom of the yore. In the third part of the narrative, she tells us about the curse on Parikshit,...

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