Heaven - Different Truths

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 6, 2018
Sarika Sarkar Das
Food

Trials and Tribulations of Life and Yummy Steamed Sandesh

Sarika talks about the trials and tribulations life, heartbreaks and yummy Bhapa or Steamed Sandesh, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. There’s no free lunch in life!...

March 29, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Food

Scrumptious Namkeen, Anyone?

Ruchira tells us about various namkeens, from different parts of India, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Indians are probably the most notorious foodies in the world....

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...

March 13, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor, Literature

The Custodian

Soumya shares the highs and lows of hitch-hiking in a truck, after a cancelled flight to Delhi, with two men and a lady. Read more about this adventure, in...

February 15, 2018
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Was it Just a Vision? – LXII

Nilanjana recounts a tale from the Bhagavatam about how Nanda, and the gopas of Vrindavan, realised the divinity of his son, Krishna. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively...

February 6, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

When Names Determine the Sex!

Humourist Soumya tells us the gender confusion that names create, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. In the days before gender identity became infra dig and when...

February 5, 2018
Devesh Chandra Mishra
Poem

I am Thinking

Devesh imagines a beautiful world and wishes it is true, in the verse, for Different Truths. I’m thinking So I’m a thinker I ‘m writing So I’m a writer...

January 7, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Films, History & Culture, Opinion

Padmini in the Ocean of Controversies

Padmini’s narrative has found itself being retold in several ways over several centuries, in the form of poems, stories, dance dramas, comic books, plays, and films. Each retelling is...

December 22, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Gender, Relationship & Lifestyle

Am I Modern or Liberated?

In introspection, Ruchira asks some hard questions, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I never blindly followed social norms and customs. Period. For this, I have to...

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