Memory - Different Truths

September 5, 2024
Jahnavi Gogoi
Poem

A Mother’s Grief: An Exploration of Loss and Love

Jahnavi’s poem explores sorrow, grief, and hope in a family dealing with loss, highlighting the delicate balance between life and death, exclusively for Different Truths. a southeaster croonsa dirge...

March 12, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Get Around the Molehills of Life

We often imagine situations far worse than they are. In short, we create a mountain out of molehills. Shernaz tells us how to overcome this problem, exclusively in Different...

March 7, 2024
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

Of Rashtrabhasha, Bongs and Faux Pas!

We usually think in one language and translate in another. Much is lost in translation, and the meaning often changes. . Here’s a hilarious account by our humourist in...

January 15, 2024
Anumita Roy
Fairs & Festivals, Food, Special Feature

Makar Shankranti: New Harvest Celebrations

In Bengal, winter festivities have special significance. The Pithe Pabbon, as it is known in the eastern state, is a part of the identity, woven into the collective memory. Here...

January 12, 2024
Monika Ajay Kaul
Poem

Focus: In the Memory Lane with Grandfather’s Pen and Ink

Memories inked with longing, study’s sanctuary revealed—Monika’s poem whispers through Parker pen and Chelpark ink—exclusively for Different Truths. In the study’s hallowed chamber, memories unfold. a Parker pen and...

July 19, 2023
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Governance

In Memory of Capt. Vikram Batra

Dr Roopali pays her tribute in a poignant verse to a Kargil martyr, Vikram Batra, a young officer, who tragically died, prompting questions about life’s purpose – exclusively for Different Truths....

May 1, 2023
Atrayee Bhattacharya
Fiction, Short Story, Special Feature

Kabuliwala of the Eden Gardens

As an homage to Tagore, Atrayee writes a modern version of Kabuliwala. This Mini’s world is that of crayons, TV, Cricket matches, and more. But, the echoes of...

March 2, 2023
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
Poem

The Only Way to Bring Him Back

In an enigmatic personal poem, Kavita recalls how her husband remembered his father – exclusively for Different Truths. For three weeks after his father died His son, now my...

February 2, 2023
Madhumita Bhattacharjee Nayyar
Poem

The Cold Winter Night…

A love poem in the backdrop of a cold winter night, by Madhumita, for Different Truths. Wintry night embraces, shivering, frigid and piercing, Lonely in love, my heart hibernates, gelid...

October 3, 2022
Susmita Bhattacharya
Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

Durga Puja Nostalgia: Opening an Old Album and the Paroxysms of Emotions

Freshly returned from South America, first time Durga Puja to experience yet the vast unsettled feeling from being brought to a quite stringent and conservative environment in Batanagar from the...

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