Trident - Different Truths

March 7, 2024
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

Of Rashtrabhasha, Bongs and Faux Pas!

We usually think in one language and translate in another. Much is lost in translation, and the meaning often changes. . Here’s a hilarious account by our humourist in...

October 6, 2022
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem, Religion, Special Feature

The Supernova

Lopamudra’s dedication to the icon of Goddess Durga, the creative feminine force at the core of our religious, cultural and mythological milieu, is a poem that attempts to transcend...

July 9, 2022
Smita Agarwal
Poem

At Fifty Three

Here’s a powerful poem by Smita, a personal prayer in defiance. Dear God, Idol of stone, Shaped like a phallus. And then, more often than not, ...

May 18, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Taste of Victory in Karnataka Emboldens Mayawati: BSP Leader Blames Congress for Damaging Campaign

Mayawati hopes that after winning one assembly seat out of 17 seats it contested in Karnataka in alliance with JD(S), BSP will be able to bargain hard with Congress...

October 5, 2017
Lovita J. R. Morang
Poem

Ten Shades of Forbidden Clay: Nishiddho Pallis

Lovita pays her homage to the goddesses, Durga, Kali and Laxhmi, as we worship the goddess of wealth, today. Here’s an intense poem, a social commentary, exclusively in Different...

July 11, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Defence, Obituary

The 1971-War Hero Commander B N Kavina VrC Passes Away in Australia

Commander Bahadur Nariman Kavina is the Navy officer we are talking about. As a husband, father, friend, boss and even stranger he was extraordinary, adoring, sensible, sensitive, wise, kind,...

July 2, 2017
K Pankajam
Books, Politics, Subaltern & Dalits

A Retrospective of Concern for Human Values: Letters to Namdeo Dhasal by Chandramohan S

Chandramohan’s poems portray subaltern life with exactitude and his concern for human values is quite evident in almost all poems in this collection. Poem after poem one can sense...

June 2, 2017
Nalini Priyadarshni
Poem

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

A protest poem by Nalini, dedicated to social activist Arundhati Roy. Here’s an intense political verse, in Different Truths. How can you do that? Have a mind of your...

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