Mumbai - Different Truths

April 26, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food, History & Culture

Dhansak: A Fusion of Persian and Gujarati Cuisines Found Favour with the Britishers

Food historian Lizzie Collingham writes in her book Curry, “In the seventh and eighth centuries, the fire-worshipping Zoroastrians had fled the Arab invasion of Persia and settled along the west...

April 23, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Films

Manoj Bajpayee, Varun Dhawan and Moushumi Chatterjee: Three Gifted Actors

Three Taureans, Manoj Bajpayee, Varun Dhawan and Moushumi Chatterjee, celebrate their birthdays this week. Manoj had to deal with initial rejections and struggles, he was noticed by the acting...

April 16, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Films

Three Aries, Bindu, Arshad Warsi and Babita Braved Odds, Emerged Victorious

Bindu, Arshad Warsi, and Babita, three well-known Aries actors, whose birthdays are in the coming week, have one thing in common. All of them had to face difficult situations....

April 11, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

A Walk in the Park

Humourist Soumya talks about the many sights and sounds of morning walk in Mumbai, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The gentle musical notes of the...

April 8, 2017
Different Truths
Book Club

Onaatah, Shunned and Shamed, a Victim of Sexual Assault, in Search of Hope!

Is there justice outside courtrooms for a rape victim? The law might take its own course, but what does a woman do when the society shuts its door on...

March 15, 2017
Nandita Samanta
Crime, Gender, Human Rights

How Purba, the Survivor, returned from a Journey to Hell?

Trafficking of women is an international commercial activity in which force, coercion, and fraud are used to transport women across international boundaries for economic gain. As a complex organised...

March 3, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty

My Journey through Fashion

We’re all storytellers, whether we think of ourselves that way or not. Shameena believes that the clothes have power over our mind! The clothes we wear can capture memories and...

February 18, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, History & Culture

Historicity of the Indian Partition in 1947

The partition of India, in 1947, was a human tragedy, an epoch-making event of the far-reaching impact on the lives of the people of this subcontinent. It created hardships...

February 15, 2017
Abha Iyengar
Criticism, Potpourri

Words Matter: The Lateral Learnings of a Writer

Abha describes how as a writer, editor and book reviewer, she picked up interesting words through casual conversations, some word that flies in the air, or a work she suddenly stumbles...

January 8, 2017
Arindam Roy
Crime, Short Story

True Crime Story: When Marriages are made in Hell!

Arindam shares a true crime story that he had witnessed closely during his stay in Bombay, in the mid-1980s. Trusting and gullible men were enticed and trapped in marriages. Within...

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