Phobia - Different Truths

March 12, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Get Around the Molehills of Life

We often imagine situations far worse than they are. In short, we create a mountain out of molehills. Shernaz tells us how to overcome this problem, exclusively in Different...

June 3, 2023
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Claustrophobia

An intense and poignant prose poem by Deeya, in Different Truths. Pinned against a wall a moth flutters desperately. It isn’t his wall. I can wall up my desperateness...

December 21, 2021
Lovita J. R. Morang
Fiction, Special Feature, Special Needs

God of Everything Falls

February 12, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema, Politics

Lilywhite Kamal Paints Lotus Rajini Saffron

Kamal is not sure if Rajini is saffron but he is sure enough that he probably isn’t. With ‘saffron’ Kamal is conveying that Rajini if he is saffron, must...

December 19, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

The Sight of Policemen gives me the Heebie-Jeebies

It was during the impecunious student days that we traveled the city and even the country using public transport, whenever we couldn’t persuade kindly strangers to offer lifts, but...

August 1, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Five Fears that we must Understand!

Fear that is birthed by doubts, suspicions, distrust of the other, misunderstandings and ignorance is the xenophobic roar within…. It sees foes where there are none and can translate...

July 10, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Cinema, Dissent, LGBTQIA+, Relationship & Lifestyle

Faraz Ansari: Will India respond to the Sisak of the LGBTQ Community?

Director Faraz Ansari’s Sisak is the first silent LGBTQ film of India that is not only creating waves at international film festivals but winning awards too; seven, so far....

April 10, 2017
Anumita Roy
Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

What is Sound Sensitivity in Autistic Children?

Anumita talks about parenting, with special reference to Autism. Read her column about how to care for special needs children, as we in Different Truths, join the cause of...

January 21, 2017
Archana Sharma
Book Club, Interview

French Author Charles Dantzig: European Nations are Conservative, not Progressive!

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”...

May 13, 2016
Arindam Roy
Potpourri

Why is Friday the 13th Feared?

If a month begins with a Sunday, it will have Friday the 13th that month. This year, it occurs just once. Let us examine the genesis of this deep...

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