Life - Different Truths

November 11, 2021
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Potpourri, Sports

A Tale of Seven Indoor Games

Ruchira tells us the genesis of seven indoor games, revealing many lesser-known facts. An exclusive for Different Truths. For almost half of the ongoing year, I found myself confined to the...

November 8, 2021
Hemashri Hazarika
Gender, Relationship & Lifestyle

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...

November 1, 2021
Prof. Swaraj Raj
Ecology, Environment, Opinion, Pandemic

Hope & Patience: How a Caterpillar Transformed into a Butterfly!

Dr. Swaraj, an expert on butterflies, reveals a story of patience and hope, of how a caterpillar transformed into a beautiful Common Mormon butterfly. An exclusive for Different Truths....

October 27, 2021
Shail Raghuvanshi
Poem

A poignant, heart-wrenching poem, for Shail’s friend, who succumbed to Covid. A tribute exclusively for Different Truths. Feisty fireflies of freedom traverse the crowded caravan of careless cruising, drowning...

October 21, 2021
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
History & Culture, People, Place, Travel & Food

A Child’s Eye View of Varanasi

Ruchira walks down the memory lane to the Varanasi of her childhood days. An exclusive for Different Truths. It was the early 1970’s to be precise. As a seven-year-old,...

October 8, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Food, People, Place, Travel & Food

The Twin Cities and Their Twin Cultures – I

Dr. Roopali walks down the memory lane to her childhood. In the first part, she recalls her parental home at Hyderabad and her army officer father’s stay in Delhi,...

September 28, 2021
Soumya Mukherjee
Guest Blog, Humour

Ajay Sharma Learns a Lesson

Tongue-in-cheek, Soumya exposes the deep-rooted corruption in the banking sector, through his protagonist, Ajay Sharma, for Different Truths. This was the first branch that Ajay, a twenty-five-year-old just two...

September 27, 2021
Prof. Swaraj Raj
Humour, Potpourri

Joys of Being Absent-Minded

Dr. Swaraj writes about the boons and banes of absent-mindedness, sparkling with wit, humour, and erudite scholarship. An exclusive for Different Truths. It was a glorious May morning. Thrilled...

September 27, 2021
Nandita Samanta
Poem

A Woman’s Wok-Place

Nandita pens a powerful woman-centric poem, dealing with drudgery, domestic violence and more, exclusively for Different Truths. Why do I often feel and see noise, instead of hearing? The...

September 24, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Travel & Food

Home is Where the Heart is! – II

Dr. Roopali tells us about the joy of migrant labourers returning home, from the Middle East, after many years. They felt free. An exclusive for Different Truths. At the...

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