Milk - Different Truths

January 17, 2018
Lily Swarn
Food, Religion

The Tamil Harvest Festival Pongal Celebrates Bounty and Camaraderie

Lily tells us about the four-day harvest festival, dedicated to the sun, in Tamil Nadu. It’s also celebrated in other states in South India. It means ‘spilling over’ of...

December 20, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Poem

A Glass of Milk was Spilled Today

Here is a ballad from Sumita, wherein the storyteller-poet tells an interesting tale, in Different Truths. A glass of milk was spilled one day. Mother yelled and Sunny froze,...

December 13, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

The 500-year-old Legacy of Stuffed Turkey during Christmas Dinner in Britain Continues

William Strickland from Yorkshire introduced turkeys to Britain more than 500 years ago. Even though King Edward VII made turkey eating fashionable at Christmas, it was King Henry VIII...

December 5, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor, Travelogue

Close Encounters of the Wild Kind –1

Fancy-free and footloose, three friends decide on an adventurous trip. They meet an Australian bicyclist and decide to visit a wildlife resort, meeting villagers and a sadhu. Here’s the...

December 1, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Beauty, Health

Why is Sleep Important? – III

In the third and final part of the three-part article on sleep, our fashionista, Shameena, tells us why sleep is important. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in...

November 20, 2017
Arun Dash
Poem

Those Industrious Palms

Arun tells us about city life, in this verse, in Different Truths. The gush of light coming Through the window, The chirping of the birds, The bell of the...

November 8, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

The Journey of Halva to India

No one is exactly sure when halva, the dish or its name travelled south and east to Syria, Lebanon, the Gulf states and then to Afghanistan, finally reaching India....

November 5, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Fiction

Sumita tells us an engrossing story, in two parts. Here’s the first part, a horror-humour, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Dainagri: Police and government officials admit their...

November 2, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Doubt of Brahma Deepens – XLVII

The divinity, manifest as Krishna, multiplied himself. From one he became many. He became the cowherds, the calves that were grazing, the rope around the neck of the calves...

September 22, 2017
Sonali Chakraborty
Food

Chhanar Payesh: A Yummy and Delicate Bengali Dessert for Festivities

Sonali shares a yummy and delicate Bengali dessert, chhanar payesh that suits the Autumnal (Sharadiya) festivities, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. It is that time of...

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