linguist - Different Truths

March 30, 2022
Mira Pawar
Films

Omar Sharif: A Multi-faceted Personality

Mira talks about the life and times of Omar Sharif in a tribute to the great actor. A heartthrob of millions, he was a linguist, excellent Bridge player, author and...

May 11, 2021
Swapan Bhowmik
Literature, People, Place, Special Feature, Tribute

An Overview of the Ideas and Visions of Rabindranath Tagore

Rooted in the Indian reality, minus its dogmas, the flight of Rabindranath Tagore’s creative genius made him a global citizen. Swapan delves into the world of his ideas and...

July 14, 2018
Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar

Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure

Bhaskaranand reviews the poetry of U Atreya Sharma and critiques his book Sunny Rain-n-Snow, exclusively for Different Truths. Sunny Rain-n-Snow is a beautiful folio of sixty-three poems well-wrought by U...

June 23, 2018
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Translation and the Readers Response Theory – II

Basudeb dwells into the complexities of translation and readers response theory, in the second and final part of his erudite research, exclusively for Different Truths. Translator’ construction of the...

June 16, 2018
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Some Problems of Translation: A Study of Red Oleanders by Tagore – I

The journey of the theme and the meta-theme, encoded into one language, to another language, is the kernel of the translation process. We need to remember in this connection that...

May 31, 2018
IPA Service
Curtain Raiser, Politics

Global Meet in Patna to Debate Marxian Thought

An international conference in India on Karl Marx – ‘’Karl Marx-Life, Ideas and Influence: A Critical Examination on the Bicentenary’ (16-20 June 2018) under the aegis of the Asian...

May 8, 2018
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Translation, Tribute

Red Oleanders: An Evaluation of Translational Strategies of Tagore

Tagore’s visit to Europe and America is one of the stimuli that leads him to write Rakta Karabi and then to translate that into Red Oleanders for pinpointing the crises of western civilisation...

February 18, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Cover Story, History & Culture

The Third Gender: Why Transgender Are Seen as a Different Community?

The LGBTQ community is in a cheerful mood since the petition quashing of section 377 of IPC has been considered for their good; the Supreme Court of India has...

February 17, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

Nepal to Keep both China and India in Good Humour

While both prime minister of Nepal Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and CPN (Maoist Center) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal repeatedly expressed their eagerness to befriend Beijing more than New Delhi...

February 1, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Dividing South Indian Cutlet: The Final Frontier

The young protestors were angry at being served ‘beef cutlet’ at a college get-together. They were apparently “fooled” into eating beef by the college administration. Somewhere in the commentary,...

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