Sandesh - Different Truths

April 15, 2023
Sonali Chakraborty
Food

Celebrate Noboborsho with Delicious and Healthy Aam (Mango) Sandesh

In India, a varied array of mangoes is available during the summer months and people throng the markets to get a big batch to bring back home. A plate...

May 31, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

Enchanting Bengali Wedding Rituals, Rites, and Banters

Ruchira tells us about the many rituals of Bengali wedding, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Twenty-six years ago I got hitched. However, I had neither the...

April 6, 2018
Sarika Sarkar Das
Food

Trials and Tribulations of Life and Yummy Steamed Sandesh

Sarika talks about the trials and tribulations life, heartbreaks and yummy Bhapa or Steamed Sandesh, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. There’s no free lunch in life!...

October 6, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

Mother of my Daughter

Ruchira recalls about her mother and how she was brought up. The wheel turned full circle. Now, she is a mother to her daughter. Here’s an interesting article on...

September 22, 2017
Sonali Chakraborty
Food

Chhanar Payesh: A Yummy and Delicate Bengali Dessert for Festivities

Sonali shares a yummy and delicate Bengali dessert, chhanar payesh that suits the Autumnal (Sharadiya) festivities, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. It is that time of...

September 20, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

Shukto: An Essential Bengali Cuisine not Influenced by the Portuguese Cooking

The Portuguese arrived very late, in the 16th century in India, but the medicinal value of eating bitter at the start of the meal was laid down by the great...

September 15, 2017
Sarika Sarkar Das
Food

Usher in the Durga Puja with Kesar Kjoya Sandesh

Sarika ushers in the autumnal festivities and Durga Puja with a favourite Bengali sweet, Sandesh, with an innovative twist, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. These days I...

May 1, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Balraj Sahni, Anushka Sharma and Satyajit Ray Celebrate Birthdays on May 1 and 2

While Satyajit Ray, the God of Cinema, was born on May 2, Balraj Sahni, who lived the characters he portrayed with realism, shares his birthday with bubbly, bouncy Anushka...

February 23, 2017
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism

That Language Named Urdu

The fictional character of Urdu having a Muslim character persisted in times of Premchand and also exists till now. During one of his lectures delivered in Bombay during the...

June 2, 2016
Urooj Murtaza
Poem

Urooj and Ipsita found each other through poetry and discovered a deep bond, an inexplicable affinity and affection resulting in a beautiful bond beyond borders. They came together in sisterhood, melting geographical...

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