Dr. Sunil Sharma

A humble word-worshipper: catcher of elusive sounds, meanings and images. Published 27 creative and critical books--- joint and solo. A winner of, among others, the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and, Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the novel Minotaur. His poems were included in the prestigious UN project: Happiness: The
Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, 2015.
Editor of the monthly Setu journal (English):

December 16, 2024
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Poem

Squirrels in the Old Farmer’s Yard

Dr Sunil captures a lively scene at an old farmhouse with squirrels, creating a dynamic, theatrical spectacle exclusively for Different Truths. Squirrelswith erect tuftsof bushy tailscut across the wideyardsof...

December 2, 2024
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Poem

Mural: Street Art and the Language of Love

Dr Sunil’s evocative poem, exclusively for Different Truths, is about a forgotten warehouse, scarred by time, that mirrors the city’s unseen wounds in the sunrise. Dawnbleeds on thesplinteredwindow-glass, ofan abandoned...

November 18, 2023
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Poem

Six Poems by Tahir Aslam Gora

Dr Sunil translates six evocative Urdu/Hindi poems by the Canadian poet, Tahir Aslam Gora,exclusively for Different Truths. Sleep Evades Otherwise, I never feel sleepy, Only when the bed is...

May 24, 2023
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Poem

Life of Another Kind!

This collaborative verse deals with an AI-controlled futuristic life by Dr Sunil and an artwork of the famous Australian poet-artist Robert Maddox-Harle – exclusively for Different Truths. Surprise! The...

February 21, 2023
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Poem

Abandoned

A dark poem about neglect, by Sunil, exclusively for Different Truths. Corner-room of the house in partial decay, on a bed narrow, she stares at the wallsand the chest...

May 28, 2022
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Fiction, Short Story

Gabriel Garcia Marquez & the Art of Surviving Rejection

Here’s a radical fiction by Dr. Sunil, wherein he reimagines Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s writings and the strategy of surviving rejection. An exclusive for Different Truths. “Sir?” The man smiled. “I...

January 26, 2022
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Fiction, Short Story

The Lost Catwoman

Dr. Sunil observes that this story suggests sadistic modes of ‘seeing’ and ‘turning’ people into monsters by a conspiring society and judging culture. An intense tale exclusively for Different Truths. Avni...

December 20, 2021
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Short Story

Of a Cheshire Cat, Alice, and a Few Takeaways

Dr. Sunil pens a literary fiction inspired by Alice. He retells it in the contemporary context. Here’s the lead of a three-week long theme on stories. A Special Feature exclusively...

August 26, 2021
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Poem

Afghanistan: In the Name of Power

The political turmoil in Afghanistan, fear, deaths, and exodus, is voiced in this poem, by Sunil, exclusively for Different Truths. The elected left. System collapsed. There is smoke outside...

June 3, 2021
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Poem

Meditating Autumn

A poet and a photographer, Sunil and Rob, celebrate the beauty of nature to create two photo-poems together, exclusively for Different Truths. The mix of light and gloom, fragility...

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