Peace - Different Truths

April 8, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

How did the Colonial Masters wreck the Hindu-Muslim Communal Harmony in Tamas?

Greed for power and the politics surrounding it has been ugly, historically. The Colonial Masters fanned the differences and practiced ‘divide and rule India policy’. Bhisham Sahni, in Tamas,...

March 28, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

My First Punju Wedding as an Invited Guest

Humourist Soumya tells us about the boisterous and exuberant Punjabi (slang: Punju) wedding as an invited guest. The Big Fat Punjabi Wedding is a place to be. Here’s more...

March 9, 2017
Kavita Panyam
Relationship & Lifestyle

Apologising is an Art

One does not lose respect in the eyes of another when one apologises. An important thing to keep in mind is to maintain the tone of the voice,...

February 24, 2017
Jamuna Rangachari
Relationship & Lifestyle, Wellness

Healing by Loving the Inner Child

All of us have a suffering inner child. As children, we all have all had times of difficulty as children and many of us have experienced trauma. When we...

January 29, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Cover Story, Criticism

Hindu World View of RK Narayan: Progress of Jagan from Egotism to Mysticism

The acceptance of one homogenised Indian culture, i.e., Hinduism, in general, and Brahminical cult, in particular, is the basic assumption of this article, which aims at examining the process of transformation...

January 6, 2017
Bruce Louis Dodson
Poem

Postcard from Nepal – Mount Kailash

An evocative poem that’s more like a prayer to Lord Shiva, by Bruce, for Different Truths. The climb is more than is imagined Higher than the Sherpas dare to...

December 31, 2016
Sunila Khemchandani
Poem

Inverse World!

Here’s a nonsense verse by Sunila, where everything is topsy-turvy. Head and legs change positions and the heart inverse the blood flow, for Different Truths. Imagine the heart to inverse...

December 20, 2016
Maya Khandelwal
Poem

My World

As a poet, Maya, has the capacity to create a world that’s her own – away from the divisions and dissensions, the mundane existence. Here’s an evocative verse, in Different...

November 24, 2016
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from the Srimad Bhagavatam: The Beginning – I

Nilanjana retells the stories from the Srimad Bhagavatam1 , bringing alive the essential Indian wisdom of the yore. In the first part of the serialising the Hindu Holy Book, she recapitulates...

November 16, 2016
Dr. Krishna Hota
Religion

How Daily Worship Enhances our Personality!

Daily worship is a wonderful training of the body and mind. When a person communicates with God or the Supreme Being, (s)he connects with the inner self. Worship enhances and...

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