Lord Shiva - Different Truths

July 17, 2023
Rajul Tiwari
Religion, Spirituality

Saawan and Shiva: Chaos, Revival, and Control

Saawan, the Hindu monsoon season, symbolises the life cycle, Lord Shiva’s transformative power, and encourages inner transformation, devotion, and self-realisation, explains Rajul – exclusively for Different Truths. The arrival of...

October 1, 2022
Tapati Sinha
Fiction, Humor, Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

A Slice of Divine Life: Live from Kailash

Here’s Tapati’s fictional Durga-Shiva dialogues, full of banter, repartee, wit, and humour, create a laughter riot, an exclusive Special Feature for Different Truths. “Shiva seems too busy these days!...

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...

January 5, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Place, Travel & Food

Beauteous Sunset at Kanyakumari, the Southernmost Tip of India

Ruchira takes us to Kanyakumari, where the waters to two seas mingle with an ocean, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Mahatma Gandhi had once remarked about...

September 20, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

Shukto: An Essential Bengali Cuisine not Influenced by the Portuguese Cooking

The Portuguese arrived very late, in the 16th century in India, but the medicinal value of eating bitter at the start of the meal was laid down by the great...

September 8, 2017
Arindam Roy
Business, Opinion, Religion

Durga and her Entourage in a Jawed Habib Salon: Reverence, Irreverence, Trolls, Erotica and the Liberal Hindu Mind

There’s public outrage on the social media about the newspaper advertisement of Goddess Durga’s family dolling themselves in a Jawed Habib salon. The celebrity hairstylist is being trolled on...

April 27, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Vishwamitra – XXIII

Nilanjana retells the story of Rishi Vishwamitra and how he changed, through penance, from a proud King Kaushika, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. King Kaushika was...

April 15, 2017
Sisir K Chatterjee
Cover Story, Fairs & Festivals, Rituals & Practices

Buro Shibtola: Oracles and Miracles Prove the Prowess of Shiva till date!

Tales of oracles and miracles have survived for about two hundred years surrounding a Shiva temple, known as Buro Shib, beside the Ganga, near the port of Budge Budge,...

February 16, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: The Story of Sati – XIII

Prajapati Daksha was not favourably disposed towards Lord Shiva. He thought Shiva had insulted him in the past by not standing up to respect him during the Brahma Satra...

January 29, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Cover Story, Criticism

Hindu World View of RK Narayan: Progress of Jagan from Egotism to Mysticism

The acceptance of one homogenised Indian culture, i.e., Hinduism, in general, and Brahminical cult, in particular, is the basic assumption of this article, which aims at examining the process of transformation...

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