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September 3, 2021
Arindam Roy
Short Story

Varanasi’s Lodge: Ganga, Six Men & Strange Ghost

Here’s an interesting story of six men, based on true life incidents, by Arindam, for the regular column, exclusively in Different Truths. On the rooftop of a well-known lodge...

June 21, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema, Politics, Sports

Virat and Anushka Smitten by the Modi Bug

Modi was the guest of honour at one of Virushka’s marriage receptions. That seems to have kind of left a halo around the heads of Virushka. Anushka became a...

May 31, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

Enchanting Bengali Wedding Rituals, Rites, and Banters

Ruchira tells us about the many rituals of Bengali wedding, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Twenty-six years ago I got hitched. However, I had neither the...

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

G-String Holding the Alliance Together: Congress Slowly Getting Back to Centre of Action

Opposition unity has still a long way to go, blighted as it is by individual personal ambitions. There are wheels within wheels in the opposition. And when Rahul Gandhi...

May 10, 2018
Sutapa Basu
Aesthetics, Dance, Multiculturalism, Painting, People, Place, Special Feature, Theatre, Tribute

The Abode of Peace: A Nest Formed in the Universe

Badly in need of funds for his ashram, Tagore sought donations from abroad notably England and was dismayed to encounter the cool British snub. This was a fallout of...

May 5, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Battle of Karnataka is Between Rahul and Modi: No Campaign Wave in Favour of Either

The battle in Karnataka is not about Marx and Garibi Hatao. It is between Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi – the 64-year-old and 47-year-old, one sharp as a knife,...

May 2, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Whose May Day is it: Kaamdar or Naamdar?

If you shout Mayday-Mayday! Don’t be shy. It is May 1, international workers day, which traces its origins to the Haymarket locality of the Chicago of the 19th Century, and...

December 23, 2017
Devraj Singh Kalsi
Book Extract, Fiction

Grief

Bibi Amrit, fondly called Biji, doubled her thunderous output on realising that she had an opportunity to overpower Nasib, to show the train of mourners that a mother’s grief...

June 27, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

The Wedding

Humourist Soumya takes a dig at the cross-cultural wedding of a Bong and a Punjabi. The cultural differences were sharply magnified to the woes of each side – later...

April 2, 2017
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

The Pebble Collector

Here’s an enigmatic fantasy fiction by Tapan. He unfolds the drama with a masterly touch. Read to know more, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. “Wow! Such...

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