Feeling - Different Truths

August 13, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Fiction, Governance, History & Culture

How did the Socioeconomic Undercurrents Survive Political Upheavals in India?

The wheel turns full circle when we find that many of the modern day concepts are rooted in our rich socioeconomic and sociopolitical heritage. Tapati finds hordes of interesting...

August 12, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Book Club, Creative Writing, Fiction, Humor

How Writing Became a Dream Come True!

Writing about writing is rather intriguing. Soumya, a humourist and an author, recounts how he became a writer and penned, rather keyed his first novella, befittingly titled, ‘Memories –...

August 5, 2017
Anumita Roy
History & Culture, Travel & Food

From a Small Village to a Metropolis, 19th Century Montreal is Replete with History – I

Anumita tells us about Montreal, one of the most populous metropolis of Quebec Province, in Canada. The Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal is a magnificent Gothic Revival style structure. Here’s...

July 31, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Bihar School of Yoga: Preparing for Tough World, Keeping Positive Attitude and a Selfless Service

The Bihar School of Yoga propagates certain forms of Yoga like Living Yoga propounded by Swami Niranjananda Saraswati. It spells out a certain vision of Sannyasa. Navodita, our Yoga...

July 30, 2017
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Poem

Madness

A reflective poem that decries the madness of Man, by Anoucheka, in Different Truths. Man is mad, So it would seem He births, exalts at it Enjoys, uses, and...

July 11, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Human Rights, Migration & Diaspora, People, Place

Memories of Sangla Hill

This is a question that we all have to answer. Shia, Sunni, Catholic, Protestant, Bengali, Marathi, Brahmin, Jathav, Black, White, Brown, Yellow, do we all mark our territories and...

July 10, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Cinema, Dissent, LGBTQIA+, Relationship & Lifestyle

Faraz Ansari: Will India respond to the Sisak of the LGBTQ Community?

Director Faraz Ansari’s Sisak is the first silent LGBTQ film of India that is not only creating waves at international film festivals but winning awards too; seven, so far....

July 10, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Shivananda Yoga: Ignorance makes us Perceive Diversity Rather than Unity

The Self, or the Supreme Soul, is the essential nature of man, the common consciousness in all beings. Full awareness of the Self can be attained through yoga. One...

July 1, 2017
Different Truths
Book Club, Poem

Ten Selected Poems of Prof. Pushpita Awasthi from Echoes in the Earth

Here are ten selected poems of Prof. Pushpita Awasthi, selected by her, in the Book Extract, from her book, Echoes in the Earth (2016) this week. A Different Truths...

May 24, 2017
Souma Kanti Roy
Potpourri

In the age of Postcards

Souma remembers the romance of letters (snail mail these days) and misses its enigma in the era of advanced technology, exclusively in Different Truths. I was in class three...

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