Girl - Different Truths

July 19, 2021
Atrayee Bhattacharya
Fiction, Special Feature

Locked with Lantern and a Good Luck

Atrayee tells us an intriguing story about a NGC team, caught in the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict and a kidnapping. What happened to Twisha? Here’s a literary thriller, exclusively for Different...

May 11, 2021
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Criticism, Short Story, Special Feature, Tribute

Short Stories of Tagore: Vignettes from Human Life

Ruchira critiques eight short stories of Tagore, in the Special Issue, exclusively for Different Truths. Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Mini who lived...

September 9, 2020
Dr. Jaya Kapoor Chadha
Poem

For Your Memories Dear Unnamed Girl

An intense and powerful women-centric poem, a contemporary social commentary, by Dr. Jaya, exclusively for Different Truths. Balancing memoriesBangles tinkling,She sat writingFor the back exam.She had missed the paper,For...

April 29, 2019
Aarti Mittal
Poem

A Girl’s Lament

June 26, 2018
Dr. Paramita Mukherjee Mullick
History & Culture, Travel & Food

The Ancient Walled City

The walls around Toledo are an example of one of the most fortified complex systems of the Middle Ages in Europe. It is one of the oldest cities of...

May 22, 2018
Maj Gen Raj Singh Mehta
Defence, Gender, People

Capt. Devika: An Officer and a Lady, who Personified Courage

Maj. Gen. Raj recounts the true story of a brave lady doctor, Capt. Devika Gupta, and how she risked her life and limbs to save a wounded soldier. An...

May 14, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Mutual Consent Paramount in Adult Relationships: Latest Supreme Court Decision is of Great Significance

If to exercise the basic rights of choice and intimate relationships, one has to knock on the doors of the highest court of the country every time, then the...

April 12, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Place, Rituals & Practices

Malayali Weddings: Simple Low-Key Affairs

Malayali weddings are utterly devoid of all the pomp and fanfare that mark lavish Punjabi / Sikh/Bania weddings. These are summed up as Band Baaja Baraati. At a Malayali...

April 10, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
People, Place, Travel & Food

An Amazing Experience

Is it possible that real life experiences replicate the ones that fictional heroes had in books? Soumya, relives some such moments, during a recent trip to England. Read more...

March 24, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Book Club, Book Extract

Elixir, a Voyage of the Mind: Bestseller and a Critically Acclaimed Novel

Where does our mind go, when we fall asleep? Can dreams weave a layer of parallel existence? Can there be another reality beyond all that we touch, see or...

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