My Jigsaw Fairy
Tooth Fairy or not, a fairy guided Shernaz through the jigsaw puzzle of life. Read more about it exclusively in Different Truths. When I lost my first milk tooth,...
My Thama: A Pillar of Strength, Love, and Tradition
Madhuri travels within to pay tribute to her grandma, who had a formidable and cherished presence in her life, a woman of many talents and boundless love – an exclusive...
My Grandmother Sita
Dr Jyothsnaphanija reminisces about her grandmother’s incomplete life and distant times in this poignant poem – exclusively for Different Truths. Days of festivities made her energetic. She takes me...
Durga Puja Nostalgia: Opening an Old Album and the Paroxysms of Emotions
Freshly returned from South America, first time Durga Puja to experience yet the vast unsettled feeling from being brought to a quite stringent and conservative environment in Batanagar from the...
Emancipation of Women: Many More Miles to Go
Loads of spunky women are performing daring feats which their mothers and grandmother didn’t even dream about. They are making their presence felt. Yet, lots need to be done to ensure...
The First Shadows of Cruelty
Here’s a short story by Aarathi that explores the complexities of relationships. It was penned during a Creative Writing Workshop, conducted by our Editor-in-Chief, Arindam. A Different Truths exclusive....
Are we Better off Than our Mothers and Grandmothers?
Can financial independence of working women help her sail through the distress period, when their husbands die? They need support, care, love and togetherness too, which is missing, rues...
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...
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 –...
Touching Lives
She wanted to marry a classmate from her business school, who was from a different community and working in another small town at the end of the country. They seemed...