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January 6, 2018
Suveera Sharma
Food, History & Culture

Bon Appetit: After a Full Belly all is Poetry!

Food is interwoven into the culture of the Chinese people much like the Indians. With food, Gods are worshipped, ancestors are sustained, and spirits pacified. Food also plays a...

September 22, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Beauty, Fashion, Health

Dental Bonding, Teeth Whitening and other Cosmetic Dentistry – II

Shameena tells us ways to improve our smiles. In the second part of the three-part story, she tells us about dental bonding, teeth whitening and bleaching, along with its...

August 24, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy

Eye Care Tips for the Elderly

Rita tells us about the necessity of eye care for the elders, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Problems with eyesight can occur at any age, but...

June 20, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Food

The Journey from the Garden to the Cup

Tea has been variously called the drink of the winners, the elixir of life, a divine herb, liquid wisdom, cup of happiness, joy, love; a friend, a healer, a...

June 9, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion

All about Nail Care

Our Kuala Lumpur-based fashionista, Shameena, tells us all about nail care, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Are you taking good care of your nails? Are they...

June 3, 2017
Parna Mukherjee
Food, Health

The Gluten-free Multigrain Pizza: A Healthy Alternative

Our London-based nutritionist and fitness expert, Parna, tells us about the Gluten-free multigrain pizza, a health food, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. My kid is very...

May 3, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Gaze Across the Shore

Sarala describes in great detail the goings-on at the seashore. While most things are transient, gazing across the shore is meditative. Here’s a poignant verse celebrating the beauty of...

April 16, 2017
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

Supermoon

A 25-year-old roadie, Nalin, meets a witch, Maya, an elderly widow. It’s a full moon night. Tapan takes us through many twists and turns, with sparks flying. Was Maya...

March 4, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

How Khushwant Singh deals with the Crisis of Identity in Train to Pakistan?

The present work here aims at finding whether any character or any event in Train to Pakistan directly or indirectly reveals any crisis of communal identity or not. Before Basudeb undertakes this investigation,...

December 21, 2016
Lily Swarn
Food, History & Culture

The Antiquity and Tradition of the Christmas cake

The origin and ancestry of Christmas shows us that it was actually an English tradition and that the cake was originally a plum porridge, which was eaten on Christmas Eve to...

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