Women - Different Truths

August 24, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: The Twin Trees – XXXIX

Nilanjana retells a story of infant Krishna’s pranks and the divine grace in it, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Stories of Krishna’s childhood pranks not only...

August 21, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Gender

Three Reasons why Women Need to Safeguard Themselves through Self-Defence

Ritambhara tells us how self-defence techniques are important for women. We are introducing a new weekly column, every Monday, Three Questions. A Different Truths Exclusive. In the present scenario,...

August 19, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

An Emblem of the Meteoric Emergence of Arundhati Roy as a Novelist

Basudeb profiles Suzanna Arundhati Roy and critiques her novel, The God of Small Things, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born on 24 November,...

August 16, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

Celebrate with Wine!

The well-known earliest traces of wine are from China in 7000BC. Georgia had wine in 6000 BC and Iran in 5000BC. The earliest winery that we know of is 6,100...

August 15, 2017
Farheen Viquas
Poem

We are the Living Dead!

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of India’s independence, Farheen asks some pertinent questions and wonders where is the secular India that the Founding Fathers of our liberation had...

August 13, 2017
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Politics

Playing Ducks and Drakes with the Unique Ethos of Kerala

The distrust of the RSS-BJP whose professed ideology is at variance with and is abhorrent to the local populace, who are all equal participants in the political narrative of...

August 8, 2017
Payal Talreja
Gender, Relationship & Lifestyle

Women and the Art of Saying No

Women do not know how to say, ‘No’. They get into trouble for hesitating and not speaking their minds, clearly. Here’s a bold and gutsy reaction to this problem...

August 6, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Cinema

Sahir Ludhianvi: A Soulful Love Poet, Failed in Love and Died, a Bachelor, Forlorn!

Sahir Ludhianvi’s divorced mother remained a great influence on him. Some even say he suffered an Oedipus complex. An interesting and intriguing, passionate and sensitive aspect of his has...

August 5, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Feisty, Controversial and Soft Porn Writer Shobha De showcases Multi-dimensional Images of Indian Elitist Women in her Novels

Controversial and feisty novelist Shobha De. She wears many hats, a model, magazine editor, wife, mother, columnist, a celebrity in the world of journalism, a commentator on various social...

July 31, 2017
Tauseef Shahidi
Potpourri

I Rant in the Name of the Time

Tauseef is not here to make a victim’s cry for the fading sense of ownership in his country. He is also not here to play the argumentative Indian. Here’s...

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