Existence - Different Truths

December 17, 2017
Nikita Goel
Cover Story, Relationship & Lifestyle

Hinduism Never Considered Homosexuality a Disease or a Crime

The lines dividing male and female, heterosexual and homosexual were blurred in ancient India. These tales have been passed on from one generation to another with pride. Perhaps they...

November 25, 2017
Manthena Damodara Chary
Poem

Edifying Eminence

Here’s an evocative poem by Manthena, in Different Truths. Flowery fantasy facilitates felicitous festivity The poetry of symmetry springs rare activity Blissful birds sing in scintillating splendour This world...

November 21, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

The World Today…

Kabir agonises about the meaninglessness of contemporary existence, giving us a slice of the urban life, in this verse, in Different Truths. More kisses, fewer conversations One truth is...

November 2, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Doubt of Brahma Deepens – XLVII

The divinity, manifest as Krishna, multiplied himself. From one he became many. He became the cowherds, the calves that were grazing, the rope around the neck of the calves...

October 25, 2017
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Dissent, Opinion

The Right to Differ is a Right by Birth!

Raising questions is not to be seen as a division between the conformists and the non-conformists. The conformists abide by the rules and norms because those rules and norms...

October 24, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Out of the Mouths of Babes and Infants

Our humourist, Soumya, shares hilarious moments with his baby daughter, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. There was a popular American Television programme where a celebrity host...

October 23, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Gender, Law & Order

From Practice to Perfect: Sex with Minor Wife Criminalised by the SC

In a landmark judgement, the Apex Court ruled out the exception u/s 375(2) of the IPC as being unconstitutional, stating that if any husband engages in sexual intercourse with...

October 18, 2017
Maj Gen Raj Singh Mehta
History & Culture, War & Conflicts

The 1962 Sino-Indian War: Recalling a War that was not …it was an Indian Rout

Fought both along the 890 km long McMahon Line and opposite Western Tibet in the Ladakh region of our 4056 km long Sino-Indian borders, the 1962 War showed us...

October 15, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Business, Calamity, Crime

Aarushi Denied Justice, Deadly Curse of Elphinstone, From Wagon R to Biopic, Bitcoin Billionaire and We Want Sauce

Shail reviews the fortnight that was in verse. Aarushi’s parents were acquitted of murder charges by the Allahabad High Court. In Mumbai, many died due to the collapse of...

September 25, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Gender, History & Culture, Politics

Can we Achieve Perfect Harmony through Gender Justice?

Kolkata-based young lawyer, Vedatrayee, dwells on the subject of gender justice. She examines it socio-politically, in the historical perspective, to challenge established biases, in the weekly column. A Different...

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