Peace-II
Here’s a jugalbandi in two poems by Ritamvara (as daughter) and Ipsita (as mother). They have been composing poems in sync with each other. Here are two poems by two...
Oceanic Eyes
Lily’s tribute to her mother on Mother’s Day. She talks of her sea-green oceanic eyes, among other things. Your perfume, dripping love As you tucked me into bed With the...
Babies are Crops for Sale
Based on a real life incident, Madhumita weaves a story of fatalism and pathos. Poverty is a curse. Hunger dooms people. Poor mothers are forced to sell babies to feed...
Shuffling Memories
In this poignant poem, Mamta delves into her ‘sepia memories’. As dusk settles Memories begin to scrape my mind Like negatives of snapshots Sometimes sharp Sometimes fuzzy and undefined...
Anthology on Bonded Labour
The Significant League (TSL) and Different Truths (DT) together offer an Anthology on Bonded Labour, 60 poems, one be each poet, full of pathos and pain. It’s our joint salutation...
In Verse Anca is a Gateway between Arts and Truths / The Geometry of Love
Anca talks of the geometry of love in the evocative verse following the discourse of her poems by James Cairns, the co-editor and translator of Anca Mihaela Bruma’s poems....
The Actress
Madhumita pens a story, based on a real life incident. Babies are rented out, daily, to beggars. Read what happens to one such baby. Here’s a heart-wrenching story on May Day....
Baseless Fallacies
Is life an illusion Are love and friendship delusional? Padmini asks a few hard questions in this verse. Love is nothing but a silly fabrication Fostered for generation after generation...
The Month of May and the Carbs Mayhem
Mamta takes a jibe at herself and talks about ‘weighty issues’, in this tongue-in- cheek piece. The rough and tumble of ordinary life over, I discovered I had reached close...
Hair and There!
A tongue-in- cheek tale of hair, its glees and woes by Different Truths’ humourist Lily. Alexander Pope, the great granddad of prose wrote, “Beauty draws us with a single...