Frustrated - Different Truths

June 10, 2024
Payal Talreja
Gender

Boys will (Not) be Boys: Towards a more Human Society

We talk all the time about what we would teach our daughters, but we equally need to engage in reorienting that which is taught to our sons, not just...

March 9, 2024
Rita Bhattacharjee
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Do We Love Older Women in Literature?

Rita remembers five older women characters in fiction, who are strong feminist characters, as part of the special feature on International Women’s Day (IWD), exclusively for Different Truths. Books...

April 20, 2023
Anumita Roy
Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

Autism and the Sense of Touch

April 14, 2023
Himali Narang
Literature, Poem

Dreams

January 7, 2022
Alisha Phillips
Short Story

The Scars Within

Here’s an evocative short story by Alisha that she penned during a Creative Writing Workshop, conducted by our Editor-in-Chief, Arindam. An exclusive for Different Truths. Red. That was the...

May 5, 2020
Enakshi J
Humour, Relationship & Lifestyle

Lockdown Blues: What’s Cooking? My Brain, Meh!

July 17, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee

The Price of Life

Here’s an evocative real-life account of the survivors during the partition, in 1947. A little lad was celebrating the survival of his mother and him, dancing the Bhangra –...

May 12, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Politics

Trinamool Prefers Short Term Gains That May Hurt Later: Sweeping Victory in Panchayat Poll a Sham

At least 16 people have been killed, from Jalpaiguri to Midnapore and over 500 people injured. Where armed TMC mobs could not reach opposition candidates hiding for their lives,...

April 18, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Gender, Governance

Toilet Trauma: Do Indian Women have the Right to Pee With Dignity?

There are no proper women’s toilets at public places. Will it sound very odd if we start an agitation for proper lady’s toilet, now? We live in a world...

April 11, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Gender, Governance

Of Midnight Knocks, Uncouth and Lecherous Men

A midnight knock in a Circuit House had scared Hemashri. She was about to raise an alarm to punish the drunkard. But, other incidents crowded her mind. She tells...

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