Wings - Different Truths

September 10, 2017
Tapati Sinha
Education & Career, Environment

Shantiniketan: Tagore set a School Amidst Nature, Unfettered the Young Minds – I

Rabindranath was unhappy with the British schooling system of sitting enclosed within four walls of high raised solid buildings. It was a feeling of suffocation he experienced, when the...

August 28, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Potpourri

Three Reasons why you should Inculcate a Habit of Reading

Ritambhara tells us the benefits of inculcating a habit of reading, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Way back, in the early 90s, as a child, I...

August 21, 2017
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

A Sublime Nature Poem

An enigmatic poem by Deeya that celebrates nature, in Different Truths. Butterflies soak the sun radiating virgin dreams Butterflies soak the sun radiating virgin dreams on their wings colours...

August 6, 2017
Anca Mihaela Bruma
Poem

I Urge You…

Here’s an intense love poem by Anca that transcends from the personal realm to the universal and cosmic levels. A lyric with epic proportions, in Different Truths. To...

August 2, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

Mushrooms Have Come a Long Way from Ancient Rome to the Present Times!

A mushroom is basically a fleshy, spore-bearing, fruiting body of a fungus. As early as the Roman times, fungi were popular in Europe and were also consumed many centuries...

July 18, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

And a Chipko is Born…

Humourist Soumya tells us how a Chipko was born in their home. He shares the experiences with a young girl from the hills and her love for nature, weeds,...

July 15, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Contradictory Shuffle of Planets

The tussle between Karma and destiny decided by planetary positions has been explored and exposed in this poem, by Mamta. It’s a powerful social commentary, in Different Truths. Gaining...

July 11, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Human Rights, Migration & Diaspora, People, Place

Memories of Sangla Hill

This is a question that we all have to answer. Shia, Sunni, Catholic, Protestant, Bengali, Marathi, Brahmin, Jathav, Black, White, Brown, Yellow, do we all mark our territories and...

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 12, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Poem

I am a Woman, Flame on Ice

For Delhi-based Journalist Mahima, her inspiration to believe in women power is her mother Meera Sharma. A single parent, who took the bull-of-life by its horns to save her...

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