Durga - Different Truths

June 28, 2017
Aparajita Dutta
Gender, Sports

Kunatla Ghosh Dastidar: Former Captain and an Inspiration of Indian Women-Football

Kuntala Ghosh Dastidar captained the Indian women’s team in Women’s World Cup. Aparajita profiles the former coach of Mohun Bagan, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The...

June 13, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

My First Dance

Humourist Soumya talks of his first dance, in his tongue-in-cheek manner, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I grew up in the East, where leaping about and...

January 3, 2017
Saheli Mitra
Crime, Gender, Human Rights

Open Letter of a Woman to the New Year Star

She is the woman of the world. She loves stars, those twinkling little stars that dangled on her poetry book and sparkled on cold nights to give her company and...

October 9, 2016
Aseem Asha Usman
Fairs & Festivals, Gender, Rituals & Practices, Special Feature

Durga Redefined: A Muslim Girl Inspired by Durga Paints the Goddess

Saba Ikram documented the life of many Sufi women of Delhi like Bibi Sam, Bibi Sara, Mai Saheba and Jahanara. She took interest in Devi Durga’s stories. The author asked...

October 8, 2016
Deeya Bhattacharya
Fairs & Festivals, Poem, Special Feature

Devi

Deeya opens our eyes to the dehumanisation of Devi, the girl and woman, who is sadly powerless. She is killed in the womb, is deflowered. She slaves to earn...

October 8, 2016
Maya Khandelwal
Fairs & Festivals, Poem, Special Feature

Ma Durga

Maya prays to the Mother Goddess, the one who had slain the powerful demon kings, Shumbha and Nishumbha. Here’s a poem for the Durga Puja special feature, in Different Truths. Spurred...

August 16, 2016
Dr. Krishna Hota
Religion

God Manifests in all Creations: Managing Biodiversity with Reverent Love for Nature – I

The universality of the Hindu consciousness is immense. The Supreme Being is in the inner psyche of all creatures. God is present in all things big and small – the...

July 19, 2016
Dr. Tripti Sharan
Poem

The Irony in the Land of Kanchkas

A protest poem by Tripti. She tells us about the irony in the land which worships the female form, Goddess Durga, yet doesn’t want to bear girls or treat...

February 26, 2016
Arindam Roy
Politics

Smriti Irani: Suicide of Rohith, JNU Controversy and Mahisasur Martyrdom Day

Union HRD Minister, Smriti Irani’s emotional speech, shocked the nation with the hard facts that she placed on the table of Lok Sabha. She agonised the suicide of Rohith Vemula....

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