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July 18, 2017
Payal Talreja
Advocacy, Gender

The Housewife in the Dustbin

Payal traces the etymology of the housewife pointing out that feminists find it derogatory. She advocates for ungendered terminology to chuck the word, housewife, in the dustbin. Here’s her...

July 4, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

The Liquid Path

Humourist Soumya talks about coming of age and an initiation in drinking, in his style, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. I feel that the idyllic memories...

June 9, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion

All about Nail Care

Our Kuala Lumpur-based fashionista, Shameena, tells us all about nail care, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Are you taking good care of your nails? Are they...

November 22, 2016
Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Sports

Akashganga: Of Devas and the Dhartiputras – VII

From Scorchers to Scorpions and to Silver Streaks, it was a long journey for the Indian Air Force (IAF) aerobatic team. In 1981, it was mooted that for the celebration of...

September 27, 2016
Sunil Kumar Banerjee
Short Story, Sports

Akashganga: Cosmogony and Mythology – I

The birth and creation of Akashganga: The Indian Air Force Skydiving Team is a long story of about forty years in the annals of sport parachuting. To the uninitiated the...

May 13, 2016
Inca Write
Short Story

The Poetry Leprechaun

Here’s Inca Write’s short story for Different Truths. I met Kevin one evening when darkness pulled a blind over the dusty window panes of the male ward. I did not...