expectation - Different Truths

March 31, 2017
Nikita Goel
Relationship & Lifestyle

Are Marriage Jokes all about Wife-Bashing?

Is marriage a bad joke in the patriarchal society? Nikita wonders why all marriage related jokes are about wife-bashing and why is it so deeply sexist. Here’s the narrative...

March 26, 2017
Tapan Mozumdar
Short Story

What the Fish!

A fisherman, Gokul, catches a fish that can speak. The fish warps his reality. We are introducing a weekly new column, from this Sunday, Fantasy Fiction, by Bangalore-based Tapan,...

March 24, 2017
Nikita Goel
Relationship & Lifestyle

What Women should Stop Wearing after 30: Does Expectations and Judgments of Others Matter?

How long should women continue to live under the weight of the expectations and judgments of others? Is it necessary to behave in the manner the society expects women...

March 21, 2017
Meenakshi M Singh
Poem

Homeless

Here’s a powerful and intense women-centric protest poem by Meenakshi, in Different Truths. I have always been a cuckoo bird Raising, egging my being in other’s nests Always in...

January 29, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Cover Story, Criticism

Hindu World View of RK Narayan: Progress of Jagan from Egotism to Mysticism

The acceptance of one homogenised Indian culture, i.e., Hinduism, in general, and Brahminical cult, in particular, is the basic assumption of this article, which aims at examining the process of transformation...

January 28, 2017
Nanditaa Bannerjee
Book Club, Books

Rules of Desires rooted in the Earthly Mantle of Life

Knowledge of the history and culture of the backdrops of Dipika Mukherjee’s stories are remarkable. The plots are based across urban Kuala Lumpur to cosmopolitan Shanghai, small towns of India, and...

January 5, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Kurma Avatar – VII

Nilanjana tells us the story of Kurma (tortoise) Avatar of Lord Vishnu, in the seventh part of the serial. The story of Amrita1 Manthan2 (churning of the ocean for the...

December 29, 2016
Kavita Panyam
Relationship & Lifestyle

Three is a Company: The Third Person who Steadies a Doomed Relationship

Marriage is another word for responsibility and is laden with stress and frictions. There is tussle between spouses as to who is contributing more and in what ways. As the...

November 17, 2016
Kavita Panyam
Relationship & Lifestyle

Temptations across the Forbidden Land: Married but in Love with Someone Else

Most people stuck in half and half relationships find their lives messier and unhappier than before and that’s when they may approach a marriage counsellor to set right things in...

July 8, 2016
Vatsala Radhakeesoon
Short Story

When Daisy met Dawn

An enchanting short story by Vatsala. The protagonist, Daisy, meets wise Dawn. It’s at a time when she is hopelessly forlorn and forsaken. Dawn shows her the beginning of new...

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