Strong - Different Truths

September 12, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Relationship & Lifestyle

Cast(e)ing Aspersions on a new Bride

Our humourist, Soumya, tells us how the grandmother-in-law of his new bride from another community was questioned. Find out more, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The...

September 12, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Humour, Poem

Devi in Dilemma

Here’s a tongue-in-cheek account of the plight of Goddess Durga, on Earth, her parents’ abode, in verse, by Tapati, in Different Truths. Here arrives autumn with sky, a deep...

September 10, 2017
Anumita Roy
Calamity, Environment

Mean and Monstrous Hurricane Irma set to Batter Florida Brutally

The eye of the Hurricane Irma is scaring people affected by it and many others all around the world. Irma is mean and monstrous. Anumita, our Managing Editor, reports,...

September 9, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Anita Nair, a Journey towards Melliorism: The Better Man to Chain of Custody

Basudeb critiques the novels of Anita Nair, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Shornur at the district of Palakkad, Kerala, is Anita Nair’s birth place. She...

September 6, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender, Human Rights

Why should Criminalisation of Marital Rape Destabilise Marriage?

Payal takes a hard look at the issue of marital rape, its criminalisation and the argument that it would destabilise the institution of marriage. India should learn from other...

September 4, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Yoga Vashishtha: Renunciation Stands for Fearlessness

Our Yoga expert, Navodita. Tells us about Yoga Vashishtha, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Yoga Vashishtha is full of words of wisdom that succinctly explain the...

September 4, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Three Strategies on how to Subterfuge Stress in the Modern World

Rithambara tells us the three things we need to do to subterfuge stress in our lives, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Building pliancy or resilience has...

September 4, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Pain

The agony of an aged mother being sent to an old age home has been poignantly captured in verse, by Sarala, in Different Truths. Oh God how I cried...

September 3, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Calamity, Crime, Environment, Poem

Hurricane Harvey, Mumbai Deluge, Unholy Baba and Blue Whale: Of Deaths, Shame, and Rape

From beating drums, fire signals and cries of the ancient man, we had travelling bards moving from villages to villages, recounting many stories (read news) in India and elsewhere....

September 1, 2017
Sunita Shukla
Crime, Economy, Opinion, Politics, Religion

The Vulnerability of Religiosity: How Fake Godmen Rule the Roost!

Nagpur-based Sunita exposes the chinks – rather cracks – in the armours of the socio-political and socio-economic structures. These bizarre figureheads continue to draw vulnerable people in the name...

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