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January 13, 2017
Sarika Sarkar Das
Food

Yummy and Finger-licking Chocolate Brownies add to the Festivities!

In India, people celebrate Christmas and New Year in different ways. It is an international festival and celebrated globally, almost the same way. But, India is unique in many ways, much...

January 13, 2017
Monika Arora
Poem

The Old Lady

Here’s an enigmatic portrayal of an old lady by Monika, for Different Truths. Her eyes, like an ocean calm and composed One could sense them, carry all the pain,...

January 10, 2017
Eswar Anandan
People

Losar: Tibetan New Year

The history of Losar dates back to the pre-Buddhism era of Tibet. Bon religion was widely practiced in Tibet before the advent of Buddhism in Tibet. During the winter season, it...

January 6, 2017
Bruce Louis Dodson
Poem

Postcard from Nepal – Mount Kailash

An evocative poem that’s more like a prayer to Lord Shiva, by Bruce, for Different Truths. The climb is more than is imagined Higher than the Sherpas dare to...

January 5, 2017
Subhajit Sanyal
Criticism, Interview

Thwarted Escape: How a Letter to an Unborn Daughter Evolved into a Book!

Thwarted Escape: An Immigrant’s Wayward Journey, the debut memoir/autobiographical narrative nonfiction by Lopamudra Banerjee, is a subtle, complex and organic journey of her transformation from a small-town girl in India to...

January 5, 2017
Vatsala Radhakeesoon
Poem

True Love, at Last!

Here’s a soulful love poem by Vatsala, for Different Truths. Like an elegant knight he softly holds my hand, Lovingly, he imprints protective kisses on my forehead In contrast...

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...

January 1, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Potpourri, Special Feature

Ring in the New but do not Ring out the Old

Traditions are wearing away now, like a bar of soap; smaller in size though better packaged than before. If a moving advertisement doesn’t remind us to be, call parents or...

January 1, 2017
Neelam Dadhwal
Poem, Special Feature

A New Year Soiree

A poem dedicated to the New Year, in the Special Feature on New Year, exclusively in Different Truths. A night when ushers into new dawn tripping on the past without exhaustion,...

December 30, 2016
Nilakshi Roy
Fashion & Beauty, Potpourri

The Parsi Connection: The Déjà vu of Sari, Furniture and Food

This story is as much a sari story, as it is a story of furniture – a Parsi obsession and feature of their traditionally elegant homes. Nilakshi remembers Gustad Noble’s...

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