Shail Raghuvanshi

Shail Raghuvanshi is a poet, freelance journalist, copyeditor, voice actor, and artist with 30 years of experience in various media. She has worked as the Cultural Correspondent for India's first integrated media company, PLUS Channel, and has written course material for Madurai Kamaraj University's Post Graduate Programme in Advertising and Public Relations. She has also been a coach of Communicative English. She has published poems, short stories, and articles in leading magazines and anthologies.

November 9, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
News in Verse

Focus: Assisted Suicide, Space Voting Rights & Salman Legal Controversy Heat Up

Shail’s News in Verse, a blend of news and poetry, explores death tourism, voting from space, and a celebrity’s legal troubles, exclusively for Different Truths. Guess karma just got...

August 31, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
Poem

The Miracle of Shirdi: Finding Hope & Healing

Shail’s poem explores the spiritual significance of Shirdi Sai Baba, emphasising its serene atmosphere and divine presence, exclusively for Different Truths. There’s a certain slant of lightthat cruises through...

July 1, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
People

Ashokan, a Modest and Unassuming Tea Seller

Shail profiles modest and unassuming, Ashokan, a tea seller with a pushcart outside Shastri Bhavan. He came to Chennai to better his prospects. A god fearing family man, he speaks in...

May 15, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
Oral Tradition, People

Minnal Braved Many Brutalities, Educated Children Against all Odds

Minnal Kodai, her name means ‘a streak of lightning’, had a harsh and brutal life. Orphaned at the age of 10, she worked as a maid from childhood. Marriage brought...

April 30, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
People

Devarajan Learnt Hard Lessons of Life Selling Tender Coconuts

A humble and modest man, Devarajan, has been selling tender coconut on the pavements of Chennai, for nearly three decades. He took over the traditional work, at 18 that his...

April 8, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
People

Mohammed Rubin: He Journeys from Riches to Rags with Grace!

From the job of a supervisor, in air-conditioned cabin, in the Middle East to the streets of Chennai is a difficult journey. He has grit and determination in him. He...

March 8, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
Gender, People, Special Feature

A Knife for Life!

Shail’s short story, a special feature for International Women’s Day, explores the parallels between divorcee Ria and widow Shanta Bai and how they inspire each other, an exclusive for...

February 17, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Feature

Fast Love: Is Paradise Lost in the Pursuit of Romance?

Shail’s sharp and witty essay critiques the superficial nature of social media’s influence on love, questioning its ability to fulfil the desire for genuine connection, in the Special Feature,...

October 27, 2021
Shail Raghuvanshi
Poem

Freedom from Death, from Life

A poignant, heart-wrenching poem, for Shail’s friend, who succumbed to Covid. A tribute exclusively for Different Truths. Feisty fireflies of freedom traverse the crowded caravan of careless cruising, drowning...

October 23, 2021
Shail Raghuvanshi
Cinema, Health, News, Poem, Potpourri, Protest

Pothole Puja, Onion Warpath, Syrian Wildfire, & Props Kill

Shail reviews the news of the week in verse. Bengaluru witnessed a unique rangoli protest and a warning for the CM, in the US, after Covid, a Salmonella attack was...

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