Experience - Different Truths

May 6, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Films

Creative Restlessness and Sufferings Shaped the Language of the Films of Mahesh Bhatt

Mahesh Bhatt, an enigma for many, a nonconformist, sensitive storyteller, bold and brutal, who weaves stories from the emotions experienced straight from his heart. A man who defies rules...

May 1, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Wellness

Yoga: The Awareness that all Problems are within us is the Key to Self-realisation

The awareness that the real problem lies within us opens up completely new options: the possibilities to create solutions to external problems are very limited. We cannot change other...

April 30, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Poem

Dear Mia

Dear Mia is a poem written on the experience (Volunteer Time Off) of Farheen at a local zoo with a child with special needs. Little girl, Mia (not her...

April 27, 2017
Bina Pillai
Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

When he did not Turn Over!

The trials and tribulations of bringing up a Special Needs child are severe in India. Other than the problems of grappling with everyday needs of the child, one has...

April 26, 2017
Dr. Roxy Arora
Gender, Interview

Adite Banerjie: Her Journey in no Way Has Been Banal!

Adite Banerjie, author of three published novels, in Mills & Boon (Indian Author Collection) and Harper Collins, and a journalist with financial dailies, in conversation with Roxy, a young...

April 26, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food, History & Culture

Dhansak: A Fusion of Persian and Gujarati Cuisines Found Favour with the Britishers

Food historian Lizzie Collingham writes in her book Curry, “In the seventh and eighth centuries, the fire-worshipping Zoroastrians had fled the Arab invasion of Persia and settled along the west...

April 24, 2017
Chhavi Mehra
Education & Career, International Relations

International Students and their Financial Challenges in the US

According to the Institute of International Education, over one million international students enrolled in American institutions in the year 2015-2016 (International Students). International students face acculturation issues such as...

April 17, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Wellness

Atheist or Theist are not Different: Be a Spiritual Seeker and Practise Yoga

An atheist cannot be spiritual. It is also difficult for a theist to be spiritual, too. The difference is that one believes in God and the other doesn’t. Both...

April 16, 2017
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

Supermoon

A 25-year-old roadie, Nalin, meets a witch, Maya, an elderly widow. It’s a full moon night. Tapan takes us through many twists and turns, with sparks flying. Was Maya...

April 16, 2017
Muddasir Ramzan
Short Story

Fallen Life

Here’s a poignant short story, a sudden fiction, by Muddasir, dealing with the gloom of death, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. In a whirring euphoria of...

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