Sunday - Different Truths

July 1, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
People

Ashokan, a Modest and Unassuming Tea Seller

Shail profiles modest and unassuming, Ashokan, a tea seller with a pushcart outside Shastri Bhavan. He came to Chennai to better his prospects. A god fearing family man, he speaks in...

April 16, 2024
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Missing on a Weekend

A bold prose-poem of Deeya, in Different Truths, set in the urban settings and sensibilities of the 21st century. Weekends are subterfuges in love, desire, pain. They are the extra...

March 18, 2024
Tapati Sinha
Short Story, Special Feature, Special Needs

A Child Lost in his Special World

The pain and agony of a mother of of a child with autism, crushed by the pressures of her life, takes a grim toll. Tapati recounts a heart-wrenching account,...

March 7, 2023
Sonali Chakraborty
Fairs & Festivals, Food

If it is Holi it has to be Gujiya!

In the US, all celebrations are on the weekend, Holi too. Sonali shares the recipe of baked Gujiyas, the traditional sweet pastry that is served during Holi. Though it...

September 5, 2022
Arindam Roy
Short Story, Special Feature

F**k Honesty!

It’s an era when reporters are called upon to be fixers. They have to do the dirty jobs. Those who cannot, like the protagonist, Badshah, are ejected out of...

June 10, 2022
Anumita Roy
Poem

And I wait

In an intense, poignant, serene and soulful poem, Anumita explores waiting, with all its expectancies and hopes from beyond life. It’s Sunday and I wait, I will soon hear your...

January 6, 2022
Aarathi Kanthamani
Short Story

Here’s a short story by Aarathi that explores the complexities of relationships. It was penned during a Creative Writing Workshop, conducted by our Editor-in-Chief, Arindam. A Different Truths exclusive....

December 29, 2021
Sumita Dutta
Fiction, Special Feature

Trifle

Here are four micro-fictions – Air, The Peacock Strut, Helmets, and Repartee – presenting four slices of life, Trifle, by Sumita, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths....

September 13, 2018
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Lifestyle, Parenting

Terrible Twins, Their Big Brother, and a Doting Grandmother

Dr. Amrinder takes a break for her busy schedule to spend a day with her grandchildren, big brother, Jashn, and twin little sisters, Anya and Alia. With three grandchildren,...

June 1, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, People

Police Fails to Prevent Honour Killing of a Dalit in Kerala

Kevin Joseph, the Dalit Christian boy, was brutally murdered for daring to marry an upper caste Christian woman, Neenu Chacko, at the end of a three-year-old romance, against the...

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