Existence - Different Truths

November 21, 2024
Sumita Bhattacharya
Poem

A Time for Reflection: An Untrodden Path & Human Transience

Sumita translates the song “Jakhon porbe na mor paayer chinnho ei baate,” by Rabindranath Tagore, exclusively for Different Truths. Tagore contemplates the impermanence of life and the insignificance of...

September 2, 2024
Sangeeta Dey Roy
Poem

A Haunting Reflection on Life and Death

Sangeeta’s poem explores identity, mortality, existence, impermanence, and the search for meaning in a vast, indifferent universe, exclusively for Different Truths. A face, I rememberA movement, I remember.Gone in...

July 20, 2024
Sangeeta Dey Roy
Poem

The Melody of Being: Finding Meaning in a Fleeting Existence

Sangeeta, the post asks, is she real? Is her future just whispers on the wind? Memories rise, but oblivion swallows, an exclusive for Different Truths. A face, I rememberA...

March 12, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Get Around the Molehills of Life

We often imagine situations far worse than they are. In short, we create a mountain out of molehills. Shernaz tells us how to overcome this problem, exclusively in Different...

October 12, 2023
Sailasree Potay
Poem

Misfit

A sense of belongingness keeps us rooted. Some people, though present physically in this world are absent mentally. They are the misfits, feels, Sailasree, in this verse, in Different...

September 18, 2023
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Poem

Madness

A protest poem and a poignant verse by Anoucheka, in Different Truths. Man is mad, So it would seem He births exalts at it Enjoys, uses, and even abuses...

September 4, 2023
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Time for Retiral

Retirement calls for many adjustments in life. Mamta celebrates it in verse, for Different Truths. The shrill alarm bellThe acid refluxOf tightrope walkOf panic hasteDays, months, yearsAt home and...

May 11, 2023
Mamta Joshi
Criticism, Poem, Tribute

A Glimpse into Haiku Poetry and its Influence on Gurudev Tagore

Mamta traces and critiques the influence of Haiku on Gurudev Tagore’s poems, exclusively in Different Truths. Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry, which began as a popular...

May 10, 2023
Sudhi Ranjan Mukherjee
Aesthetics, Painting, Special Feature, Tribute

Rabindranath Tagore: An Inspiration in Art

Sudhi Ranjan pays his tribute to Tagore, tells us about the Poet-Painter’s concept of art and how the Alpana art of Santiniketan, influenced his work, as a Special...

April 17, 2023
Shernaz Wadia
Science & Technology

The Interconnectedness of all Things

Our columnist, Shernaz finds an interconnectedness in various aspects of life. We are not just interconnected, we are interdependent and to take it further ‘we inter-are’, ‘interbeings’ as the...

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