wind - Different Truths

July 26, 2021
Tutu Dutta
Oral Traditions, Special Feature

The Girl Who Married a Stranger

Tutu recounts a popular folktale from the Calabar region of Nigeria. It’s about a stunning young woman, Afiong. She had bright eyes and velvety smooth skin, the colour of...

May 29, 2021
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

The Wild March Winds …

As cyclones ravage us, Sarala remembers the romance of March winds, in this evocative love poem, exclusively for Different Truths. The March winds Swept away her heart To the...

May 11, 2021
Lovita J. R. Morang
People, Place, Special Feature, Tribute

Tagore in Love: Letters from Shillong, Khublei Shibun

It was in the month of May, Lovita was in Shillong with a sole sojourn to be there, where Tagore lived, 99 years ago (first time in 1919)....

May 10, 2021
Dr. Bina Biswas
Poem, Special Feature, Tribute

Organic Sensibility of Tagore

Bina tells us about the love of Nature in Tagore and compares it with Wordsworth. Nature was organic to both these poets. Here’s an interesting insight, as part of...

July 14, 2018
Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar

Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure

Bhaskaranand reviews the poetry of U Atreya Sharma and critiques his book Sunny Rain-n-Snow, exclusively for Different Truths. Sunny Rain-n-Snow is a beautiful folio of sixty-three poems well-wrought by U...

June 13, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

A Life-Enriching Training

Hemashri shares her experience of a training as a bureaucrat that enriched her. She shares her experience, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. I was nominated for...

June 4, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy, Exploitation

BJP Ministers Insensitive to Plight of Farmers

During last four years of Modi government rule, in spite of long sustainable movement, the government continues to be unmoved. Thousands of subsistence level farmers and peasants committed suicide,...

May 31, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

Enchanting Bengali Wedding Rituals, Rites, and Banters

Ruchira tells us about the many rituals of Bengali wedding, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Twenty-six years ago I got hitched. However, I had neither the...

May 30, 2018
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Poem

I Feel Your Presence

A verse in memory of a loved one, by Ritambhara, in Different Truths. I feel your presence, no matter where I am I feel your presence, no matter what...

May 25, 2018
IPA Service
Industry, Politics, Security, War & Conflicts, World

German Industry Divided on Links with Iran: Social Democrats, Left Hit by Factional Fights

Only days after Netanyahu’s press conference attack on Iran, Trump tore up the U.S. copy of the Iran nuclear agreement. Only hours after that Israel launched its heaviest missile...

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