school - Different Truths

March 11, 2022
Debjani Mukherjee
Gender, Human Rights, Special Feature

African Women Stand Tall against Female Genital Mutilation

Butchering girls’ private parts, cutting out healthy flesh in the name of religious ritual is barbaric. Whenever a girl or a woman gets cut, she becomes exposed to numeric...

November 1, 2021
Poonam Chawla Sood
Poem

The Nun in Convent

Poonam pays tribute to a Catholic nun, who taught them at school, exclusively for Different Truths. She was a German Catholic nun In an Indian Girls Convent school Teaching...

June 22, 2021
Anumita Roy
Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Needs

Confessions of a Special Needs Mother

Anumita candidly opens her heart and tells Different Truths the many trail and tribulations of being a special needs mom for two special needs children. Five steps forward and...

May 12, 2021
Dr. Gauranga Mohanta
Aesthetics, Environment, Language, Multiculturalism, People, Place, Special Feature, Spirituality, Tribute

Revisiting the Idea of School Education of Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore wanted to defend the freedom he enjoyed in his family, for all humanity. He remained firmly opposed to colonial education that aimed at material prosperity. He believed...

May 12, 2021
Dr. Partha Banerjee
Dance, Language, Migration & Diaspora, Multiculturalism, Music, People, Place, Special Feature, Theatre, Tribute

One Last Tagore Birthday before My Death

A Diaspora, Dr. Partha shares the agony of a Bengali far away from his homeland. He confesses, there are quite a few other Bengali immigrants both from Bangladesh...

May 11, 2021
Ranjan Ghosh
Aesthetics, Education, History & Culture, Special Feature, Tribute

Aesthetics, Politics, Pedagogy and Tagore

Tagore rested on his desire for a far-off planet, listened to the invitation of a dream and did not allow the spaceship to rust. His journeys and envisagements, however,...

December 15, 2020
Soumya Mukherjee
Riots & Violence

Riots

A new game called riot in a boy’s school to witness actual riots in 1984, along with the reference of the partition riots, Soumya records all these, in this...