Movies - Different Truths

May 1, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Balraj Sahni, Anushka Sharma and Satyajit Ray Celebrate Birthdays on May 1 and 2

While Satyajit Ray, the God of Cinema, was born on May 2, Balraj Sahni, who lived the characters he portrayed with realism, shares his birthday with bubbly, bouncy Anushka...

April 30, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema, Cover Story

Balraj Sahni, An Activist Writer-Actor, believed a Good Actor is a Good Person

Two films, Do Bigha Zamin and Garam Hawa, are enough to showcase the acting range of this versatile actor, Balraj Sahni. The pathos of the farmer entrapped in the...

April 28, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Cinema, Obituary

…And I Wept for Vinod Khanna, my Teenage Crush!

The images of Vinod Khanna haunted Samina throughout the day and by the end of the day, she felt a heart-wrenching pain. It was unbearable and she found tears...

April 27, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema, Obituary

Vinod Khanna, Veteran Actor and BJP MP from Gurdaspur, Passes Away

A debonair actor of Bollywood, Vinod Khanna, who was the heartthrob of many women fans, young and old, passed away on Thursday, in a Mumbai hospital. The veteran actor-cum-politician...

April 24, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Autism

Here’s a soulful poem about the innocent questions that an autistic child asks his mamma (mother). Sarala pens this poem in the month on autism awareness, for Different Truths....

April 1, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Bollywood Birthdays: Ajay Devgan, Praveen Babi, and Jeetendra took the Silver Screen by Storm – I

Three famous Bollywood actors, Ajay Devgan, Parveen Babi, and Jeetendra have their birthdays in the first week of April. Smriti, a movie buff, profiles them, in the new column,...

February 14, 2017
Maya Khandelwal
Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Feature

Hold Your Tongue and Let me Love!

Love is no more a taboo thing meant to be talked of in whispers, in dark corners or hidden nooks. The defiant rays of it are more than visible in...

January 16, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
People

Despite Hearing Disability Kadar ekes out a Living Selling Socks

Life is not easy for 61-year old Kadar. Though he is neither sad nor depressed, asking about his hearing disability is a delicate task. He lost his hearing ability at...

December 6, 2016
Geethanjali Dilip
Cover Story, Films, Homage, Politics

From Ammu to Amma: The Iron Lady of Unique Mettle of Tamilnadu

Geethanjali, who met the cine star, Jayalalithaa, as a child, pays a soulful tribute to the fiery, feisty and the proverbial Iron Lady of Tamilnadu, endearingly called ‘Amma’ by...

November 16, 2016
Lily Swarn
Food, History & Culture, Travel & Food

Pearls, Palaces, Cuisine, Culture and Passion make Hyderabad the Gem of Deccan

Lily tells us about the beautiful city of Hyderabad that is built mostly around artificial lakes on a hilly terrain. The most prominent one being the Hussain Sagar Lake. The...

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