Talent - Different Truths

January 5, 2023
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Cinema, Interview, Music

Shuvayu: Music is my Lifeline, my Survival

Shuvayu, in a candid interview with Ruchira, discusses his music and films and outlines his outlook on life – an exclusive for Different Truths. Kolkata-based Shuvayu Bhattacharjee has traversed...

September 30, 2022
Sumita Dutta
Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

Durga Puja: A Five-day Extravaganza of Food, Feast, Fun, and Frolic

Eyes closed, each of us disappears into our own consciousness where we perhaps see a beloved departed parent or remember a past when they stood above us uttering these...

February 14, 2022
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Special Feature

Valentine-Day Blues!

Humourist Soumya shares a fictionalised story of his daughter, Medha, and her Valentine’s Day blues. Here’s a special feature, on the eve of the V-Day, in the weekly column,...

January 7, 2022
Tapan Mozumdar
Fiction

A Hole in the Bag

An intriguing story about the interconnectedness of a sling bag and its owner, Karthik. The surprise element of this fantasy fiction makes it enigmatic. Here’s the story, this week,...

July 29, 2021
Gauri Dixit
Book Review, Special Feature

The Inspiring Story of the African American, George Washington Carver

Veena Gavankar came across the English biography, George Washington Carver, an African American agriculturist, botanist, inventor and environmentalist, written by Shirley Graham and George Lipscomb. She was fascinated with...

May 11, 2021
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Criticism, Short Story, Special Feature, Tribute

Short Stories of Tagore: Vignettes from Human Life

Ruchira critiques eight short stories of Tagore, in the Special Issue, exclusively for Different Truths. Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Mini who lived...

May 10, 2021
Nilakshi Roy
Fiction, Films, Special Feature, Tribute

Tagore, Ray and Basu: The Broken Nest, Charulata, and Stories from Rabindranath Tagore

There are many admirers of Satyajit Ray’s film, Charulata (1964), which is often seen as a retelling of the story of Rabindranath Tagore’s own time spent with his elder brother...

May 9, 2021
Hayat Saif
Criticism, Multiculturalism, Poem, Special Feature, Translation, Tribute

Gitanjali: Interactions of Bengali Literature with the World

The English translation of Gitanjali, “Song Offerings”, encases only 103, amongst which one poem is a combined translation of two other poems. Fifty-three of the poems are from...

July 11, 2018
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Dissent, Human Rights

The Hunger of Oleg Sentsov

On the 15th of May 2018, one month before Russia celebrated the opening of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Oleg Sentsov began an indefinite hunger strike, which continues today...

June 15, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations, World

Trump Restaurant at the End of the Universe: All Sins of Kim Stand Pardoned

How dare Trump forgive Kim’s original sins, his human rights record: The rabid K9s he set on his uncle. The general he rocket-launched to kingdom come. The brother he...

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