Travel - Different Truths

November 19, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Pottery

Deborah Smith and Ray Meeker: Founders of Golden Bridge Pottery

Chennai-based Sumita, an artist, and author, profiles Deborah Smith and Ray Meeker. She tells us how they came to Pondicherry and founded the Golden Bridge Pottery, exclusively in Different...

November 11, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Sliver of Memories

An inward-looking, evocative verse by Mamta, in Different Truths. She tells us that in this ephemeral, ever-changing world, something doesn’t change. Like migratory birds I return home to the...

November 9, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Science & Technology

Technology and Agriculture: Food for Thought

Farheen tells us how technology has helped agriculture, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. With so much of hustle-bustle around technology, thereby, most of us literary getting...

November 8, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

The Journey of Halva to India

No one is exactly sure when halva, the dish or its name travelled south and east to Syria, Lebanon, the Gulf states and then to Afghanistan, finally reaching India....

November 4, 2017
Suveera Sharma
People, Place

I Got Your Back

Hong Kong is one of the safest places in the world, made so not just by the governing bodies, but by each and every citizen of this city. Law...

October 30, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

How to Practice Tantric Meditation Techniques?

Our yoga expert, Navodita, shares the Tantrik meditation techniques, in her weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. We have been working on training in Buddhist meditation techniques which can...

October 28, 2017
Tooba Masood
Book Club, Criticism, History & Culture

Bhaswati Bhattacharya: Coffee House became the Nerve Centre of Adda, Politics, Literary and Cultural Discourse

Bhaswati’s intensive and meticulous six-year-long research on Indian Coffee Houses in Kolkata, Allahabad, and New Delhi, has fructified in the form of a book, Much Ado Over Coffee. Here’s...

October 7, 2017
Suveera Sharma
People, Place, Religion

A Rainy Day and God

Hong Kong-based Suveera decides to visit the Big Buddha. It’s a huge bronze statue of the Buddha sitting on a lotus. It was built in 1993 at the Po...

September 18, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Cyclic Meditation and Tai Chi: Connecting with Our Deeper Selves

Navodita talks about two meditation techniques, cyclic meditation, and the Oriental Tai Chi, which are the soul of Yoga, in her weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. India has...

September 14, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: From Gokula to Vrindavan – XLII

Nilanjana recounts the story of the migration from Gokula to Vrindavan, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. The gopas in Gokula were not blind to the series...

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