Monsoon - Different Truths

March 21, 2025
Sarika Sarkar Das
Travel, Travelogue

A Love Letter to Mahabaleshwar: Monsoon Getaway with Family

Sarika takes us on a monsoon road trip to Mahabaleshwar, blending family joy with nature’s splendour, creating cherished memories among mist-kissed hills, exclusively for Different Truths. Last monsoon, in...

March 13, 2025
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Fairs & Festivals, Music, Poem

Unveiling Tagore’s Love for Spring: Poetry, Music, and Nature

Ruchira discusses Tagore’s songs on Holi, the Spring Festival, rich with seasonal symbolism that reflects both joy and melancholy, an exclusive for Different Truths. The versatile genius that Rabindranath Tagore...

February 28, 2025
Prof Malashri Lal
Poem

Whispers of the Earth: Three Seasons

Prof Malashri’s poems capture seasonal shifts: vibrant spring marigolds, scorching summer whirlwinds, and a polluted, rainless monsoon, each reflecting the human experience, exclusively for Different Truths. #1 Marigolds in Basant...

August 23, 2024
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Folklore, Music, Potpourri

Love in the Time of Monsoons: A Romantic Journey

Ruchira explores the historical significance, cultural impact, and contemporary challenges of the Indian monsoon, highlighting its poetic portrayal in classical music and literature, exclusively for Different Truths. Eons ago,...

February 10, 2024
K. S. Subramanian
Short Story

Monsoon Arc: Chennai’s Story of Survival and Empathy

Subramanian’s exclusive short story for Different Truths delves into Chennai’s struggle with water scarcity amid the rapid urbanisation of the 1960s and 1970s. It navigates through the challenges posed...

September 15, 2023
Madhuri Bhattacharya
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

The Magic of Monsoon: Raindrops and Flowers

Madhuri shares her experience of the enchanting world of flowers and fragrances, highlighting the intertwining of memories with their vibrant colours and scents, exclusively for Different Truths. Alone in the company...

August 30, 2023
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Monsoon of Life/An Indefinite Truth

Monsoon of Life A sensuous poem celebrating monsoon from Deeya. The thread of life in vigilant eyesEvokes beautyEuphoria walks aboutin a threadbare realitymonsoons overhauled in backpack of worldliness smothers ceaseless effortsof...

May 8, 2023
Tapati Sinha
Environment, Literature, Special Feature, Tribute

Nature and Environment as seen by Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore’s love of Nature was extremely subtle. For him the wide-open skies, spaciousness, and tranquillity of the countryside symbolised freedom. His numerous writings reveal the intensity of his relationship with...

August 9, 2022
Soumya Mukherjee
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Monsoon Celebrations and Getting Drenched

Soumya reminisces the fun of getting drenched in rains during monsoon. Would he be able to do that now? Find out in Different Truths. When my kids were small, we celebrated...

July 15, 2022
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
People, Place, Travel & Food

Travelling to the Monsoons in Mussoorie

Dr Roopali tells us about the scorching heat, monsoon at Mussoorie and more – exclusively for Different Truths. The monsoons are elsewhere, and your town is burning hot. Air...

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