Moments - Different Truths

June 6, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, People

A Friendship Soured

Hemashri recounts a painful, real-life experience, in a fictional voice, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Syamoli still wonders whether colleagues could ever be friends! She simply...

June 2, 2018
Tatjana Debeljacki
Book Serialisation, Criticism, Poem

Perfection – II

Here’s the second and final part of the serialising Tatjana’s new book, Perfection, in three languages, Serbian and Japanese, other than English, exclusively for Different Truths. The Faraway Horizons...

May 26, 2018
Tatjana Debeljacki
Book Serialisation, Criticism, Poem

Perfection – I

We are serialising Tatjana’s new book, Perfection, in three languages, Serbian and Japanese, other than English, exclusively for Different Truths. Close to Me Togetherness disappears. We are lost...

May 23, 2018
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand
Criticism, Poem

A Remarkable Horizontal Vastness and a Rare Vertical Depth in the Poetry of Basudeb Chakraborti – IV

Basudeb Chakraborti’s poetry has a remarkable horizontal vastness and a rare vertical depth. His poetry concerns itself with all the essential aspects of life and one feels the imprint...

May 21, 2018
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Politics

In Pursuit of an Elusive Akhand Bharat

The political dialogue has changed completely from a hitherto common plank that was to some extent regardless of caste, creed or religion to one with religious overtones that favor...

May 17, 2018
Ayub Khawar
Poem

In the Absence of God

An intense live poem by Ayub, exclusively for Different Truths. It was the secret you told me, I had faith in it too, That your heart is a trustee...

May 16, 2018
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand
Criticism, Fashion & Beauty

An Insight into the Psyche of the Modern Man in the Poems of Basudeb Chakraborti – III

Basudeb Chakraborti’s poems, on loneliness, offer mature insight into the psyche of the modern man. In his poem, ‘Love to be a Loner’, he declares: “A life of complete fulfilment I...

May 13, 2018
Nanditaa Bannerjee
Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Feature, Tribute

The Making of my Mother

Nanditaa recalls her time with her mother. She perhaps realised the meaning of motherhood when she became one. An inward-looking, reflective piece, as Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths....

May 13, 2018
Dr. Barnali Bhattacharya
Gender, Poem

The Poinsettias: An Ode to Asifa

Two doctors, Barnali and Patrick, who studied in AFMC, Pune, many moons ago, corroborated to pen a soulful piece, a prose-poem by Patrick, and a poem by Barnali, as...

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...

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