Casting Couch as Livelihood Provider: Bollywood Makes Song and Drama of Rape Culture
The casting couch is just another piece of furniture that pretty girls aspiring to become Bollywood starlets should get familiar with in the prone position. The casting couch phobia...
Close Encounters of the Wild Kind – II
In the second and final part of the adventure, Soumya tells us of an escape by the skin of the teeth. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in...
Close Encounters of the Wild Kind –1
Fancy-free and footloose, three friends decide on an adventurous trip. They meet an Australian bicyclist and decide to visit a wildlife resort, meeting villagers and a sadhu. Here’s the...
Is the Country Progressing if a Rickshaw Puller or a Daily Wage Labourer Sleeps Hungry?
Economists believe that although there is economic bullishness in government, there is economic gloom in reality in the country. Fiscal deficit as a percentage of GDP has declined from...
Deborah Smith and Ray Meeker: Founders of Golden Bridge Pottery
Chennai-based Sumita, an artist, and author, profiles Deborah Smith and Ray Meeker. She tells us how they came to Pondicherry and founded the Golden Bridge Pottery, exclusively in Different...
Durga and her Entourage in a Jawed Habib Salon: Reverence, Irreverence, Trolls, Erotica and the Liberal Hindu Mind
There’s public outrage on the social media about the newspaper advertisement of Goddess Durga’s family dolling themselves in a Jawed Habib salon. The celebrity hairstylist is being trolled on...
Give your Son Good Food was the Advice of a Teacher to his old Student
Arindam, Editor-in-Chief of Different Truths (DT), pays his homage to an exemplary teacher that he met during a train journey, many moons ago. He thanks, Anumita Chatterjee Roy, Managing...
An Emblem of the Meteoric Emergence of Arundhati Roy as a Novelist
Basudeb profiles Suzanna Arundhati Roy and critiques her novel, The God of Small Things, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born on 24 November,...