tragedy - Different Truths

August 13, 2017
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Politics

Playing Ducks and Drakes with the Unique Ethos of Kerala

The distrust of the RSS-BJP whose professed ideology is at variance with and is abhorrent to the local populace, who are all equal participants in the political narrative of...

July 29, 2017
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

The Revenge of Tashi

A bold and intense prose poem by Deeya, in Different Truths. Tashi breathes the mud of magic. The cold windy day translucently blows and his bones rattle against a tepid...

June 3, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Cinema

Bimal Roy Challenged the Taboos through his Cinema of Social Realism

Samina, a movie buff, talks about the life and times of the celebrated filmmaker, Bimal Roy. His cinema of social realism challenged the taboos that gripped the society then....

May 8, 2017
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Apala of Sonagachhi

This is a poem about the plight of a young girl, Apala, who was forced to work as a sex worker in Kolkata’s red light area, Sonagachhi. Forced into...

April 29, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

British Colonialism Contributed to the Growth of Indian Literature in English

How did the British rule in India contribute to the growth of Indian Literature in English? Basudeb probes into history and finds answers, in the weekly column, exclusively in...

March 7, 2017
Alka Nigam
Gender, Special Feature

Women theorists agree that the literature of women depends on biological, social, psychological facts that govern her existence. In fact, if one is asked to name a single most characteristic feature...

February 20, 2017
Anumita Roy
Relationship & Lifestyle

Coping with Personal Tragedy: When I Lost a Heartbeat!

How do mothers deal with the loss of a heartbeat (an unborn child)? The agony is unbearable. It wrenches out the heart of the mother. She feels guilty and...

January 22, 2017
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Economy, Human Rights, Politics

Demonetisation: Did Modi Violate Democratic and Human Rights Principles?

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has called the Narendra Modi government’s demonetisation move “despotic action that has struck at the root of the economy based on trust.” “It (demonetisation) undermines notes, it undermines...

November 22, 2016
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Economy, Opinion

Dramatics in the Hands of Invisible Puppeteers: Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair!

To be caught in the high drama of a selection process to head a premier social science research institute leaves a bad taste. Despite being a forerunner for the post,...

November 1, 2016
Saheli Mitra
Crime, Gender, Human Rights

An Open Letter to my Violator

When a woman entrusts a man with her emotional void, makes herself completely dependent on him, with the promise of being lead to ultimate bliss, she gives herself up to...

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