Fiction - Different Truths

February 5, 2021
Mitali Chakravarty
Book Serialisation, Essay, Fiction, Humour

Chapter 11: Oranges, Buddhas and Sporting Matters – XIII

In this updated chapter, Mitali tells us about oranges, Buddhas and sports, giving us a glimpse of China with humour and wit. An exclusive for Different Truths. Oranges have...

January 29, 2021
Mitali Chakravarty
Book Serialisation, Essay, Fiction, Humour

Chapter 10: Unbound – XII

Mitali tells us that a swanky restaurant in China had no toilet, while a house had a musical toilet. She talks of musical gadgets, automatic doors, a language where...

January 22, 2021
Mitali Chakravarty
Book Serialisation, Essay, Fiction, Humour

Chapter 9: To be or not to be a Sparrow – XI

In this updated chapter, Mitali talks about frogs, rains, fitness regime, swimming, massage, and more, with sparkling wit. An exclusive for Different Truths. Perhaps… You never start a piece...

January 19, 2021
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

Sex and the Coming of Age of Boy

Soumya tells us how Boy was initiated into sex and his coming of age. An exclusive for Different Truths. As my favourite sociologist, George Mikas once said, the continentals...

January 15, 2021
Mitali Chakravarty
Book Serialisation, Essay, Fiction, Humour

Chapter 8: Trantor of the East & the Fish Graveyard – X

In the tenth part, Mitali tells us about Shanghai, tracing its antiquity and contemporaneity, with flashbacks and flashforwards to the recent incident at Capitol Hill in the US, graveyard...

January 12, 2021
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

How Boy Got Hooked on to Reading?

Soumya tells us how Boy got hooked on to reading and became a book edict. An exclusive for Different Truths. We had left Boy, struggling to make sentences, lost...

December 18, 2020
Mitali Chakravarty
Book Serialisation, Essay, Fiction, Humour

Chapter 5: One World – VII

Mitali talks of the wide exposure that she and her sons had with people from different countries, as China opened its doors to foreign talents before the dawn of...

December 12, 2020
Enakshi J
Book Review, Fiction

The Blazing Chief: Terror Lurks in the Darkness

Enakshi reviews The Blazing Chief, by Matt Spencer, exclusively for Different Truths. Book: The Blazing Chief Author: Matt Spencer Rating: 4/ 5 My love for closures and cliffhangers became...

December 4, 2020
Mitali Chakravarty
Book Serialisation, Essay, Fiction, Humour

Chapter 3: The Great Wall of China and Beijing – V

In the fifth part of the serialisation of In the Land of the Dragons, Mitali takes us on a tour of the Great Wall of China, with praying mantis,...

November 28, 2020
Gopal Lahiri
Book Review, Fiction

Speaking Shadows: How That Abode Would Be

Gopal reviews the book, How That Abode Would be, authored by Vehshi Syed, in Urdu, and translated by Mushtaque B. Barq, into English. An exclusive for Different Truths. Book: ...

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