melting pot - Different Truths

December 2, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Multiculturalism

Salad Bowl and Americanism

American writers of the Indian sub-continent are women. They are Mary Anne Mohan Raj, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri and Bapsi Sidhwa, Pakistan’s important diasporic writer. In their writings, what...

November 27, 2017
Geethanjali Dilip
Poem

Origin… Rise of a New Dawn

The flow of a river, a day and life poignantly celebrated in verse by Geethanjali, for Different Truths. A silence overpowering sprawls lofty where life dizzies in a whiteout,...

April 16, 2017
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

Supermoon

A 25-year-old roadie, Nalin, meets a witch, Maya, an elderly widow. It’s a full moon night. Tapan takes us through many twists and turns, with sparks flying. Was Maya...

April 12, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

The Story of Succulent Kebabs

The Moroccan traveller Ibn Batuta stated that kebab was an important part of the food partaken by Indian royalty as far back as 1200 AD. The kebab that the...

March 1, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

How Biriyani Travelled from the Barracks to the Royal Kitchens!

Many centuries were spanned by the Biryani in its evolution from a dish for battling troops to a dish fit for the kings, it has been influenced by the gastronomic, cultural...

August 4, 2016
Piyali Callahan
Potpourri

The Driving Force

Piyali works at a public library in a relatively diverse neighbourhood. The author sees the melting pot that America truly is, in the library, where immigrants from different countries come together...