Fiction - Different Truths

February 4, 2017
Joseph Ferguson
Book Club, Humour

My Favorite Christmas Tree

Here’s an excerpt story from the New York-based Joseph Ferguson’s latest short fiction collection, Shillelagh Law. It’s a must read. The story originally appeared in Ellipsis: An Anthology of Humorous Short...

February 1, 2017
Subhajit Sanyal
Crime, Fiction, Gender, Short Story

A Different Saraswati

Like many other victims of rape and molestation, Shobha was also denied of an identity, mistreated and misunderstood by her neighbours and her relatives. As a journalist, this scribe was given...

January 23, 2017
Maya Khandelwal
Relationship & Lifestyle

Why a Daughter gets Complaints and Comparisons instead of Love?

The mother-daughter relationship is complex. In this fictionalised account, Maya shows how a mother-daughter duo, who danced and laughed like best of friends, suddenly became distant. Trisha, the daughter feels, that...

January 14, 2017
Mahua Maharana
Book Club, Criticism

Rape, Secrets of the Virtual World dealt with in the Woman-centric Novel of Sujata

The novel, The Other End of the Corridor, by Sujata Rajpal, has a free flowing story line, with plots and sub-plots blending seamlessly. Changes happen, relationships changes, relationships crashes but these...

December 3, 2016
Different Truths
Book Club

Band, Baaja, Boys! A Hilarious Account of Small Town Life by Humourist Rachna Singh

A prominent humour writer, Rachna’s fifth book, ‘Band, Baaja, Boys!’ has received rave reviews in the national media. The back cover of the book says, “She would like to work towards world...

November 25, 2016
Arindam Roy
Awards & Honours

First Anniversary of Different Truths: Felicitations and Team DT

Different Truths completes one year at the strike of the midnight hour, in India. A year back, two Founders dared to dream. Soon it became a shared vision. Poets and...

November 13, 2016
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Politics

Who are the Indian Political Junkies and What Angers Them so Easily?

Taking to the streets over state issues, to eat or not to eat something, to be allowed to pray or not to pray; burning public property and disrupting everyday life,...

December 11, 2015
Ampat Varghese Koshy
Poem

Today, I Finally Found You

Ampat’s poem celebrates the immense power of love. His lyrical poem with epic sensibility, moves from the sensual to the social selves. Today I finally found you in between...

December 6, 2015
Madhumita Ghosh
Books

Kalkatta is a Sure Page Turner

Kunal Basu’s fifth novel, Kalkatta, has the voice of a master storyteller. His research into the world of the subaltern is impressive. The character of the protagonist, however, comes through...

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