Reviews - Different Truths

April 19, 2025
Mandira Ghosh
Book Review, Poem

Focus Vibrant Emptiness: Unpacking the Oxymorons in Anemone Morning

Mandira reviews Gopal Lahiri’s eighth English collection, Anemone Morning, which combines poetic voice with contemplative verses, exclusively for Different Truths, examining nature, consciousness, and the universe’s contradictions. Anemone Morning...

April 17, 2025
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Cinema, Cinema

Parikrama: Goutam Ghosh’s Powerful New Film Explores India & Italy

Goutam Ghosh’s Parikrama, which premiered at the Italian Film Festival, blends environmental issues and religious beliefs through an Italian filmmaker’s Narmada documentary, exclusively for Different Truths. A few weeks...

March 29, 2025
Dr Aaliya Mushtaq Baba
Book Review

Focus: Navigating Inner Worlds, Self, and Experience in Poetry

Dr Aaliya reviews Richa Bajaj’s ‘Bitter Orange Poems,’ focusing on the self’s paradoxical role as both observer and participant in life, exclusively for Different Truths. The overarching question in Bitter...

March 27, 2025
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Cinema, Relationship & Lifestyle, Reviews

Spotlight: Of Pickles, Loneliness, and Man’s Best Friend

Ruchira reviews “Aachari Baa,” which explores a mother’s resilience and self-discovery after her son’s neglect, finding community and independence through her pickle business, exclusively for Different Truths. It is...

March 22, 2025
Chitra Gopalakrishnan
Book Review, Poem

‘Wives’: Love In Between the Lines of Shadow and Soul

Chitra reviews “Wives”, which explores spousal perceptions through 48 poets, revealing love’s complexities, from fierce intimacy to stark estrangement, in diverse voices, exclusively for Different Truths. This anthology that...

March 20, 2025
Abhignya Sajja
Book Review, Criticism, Gender

Focus: Grief, Resilience, and Loss in ‘The Days of Abandonment’

Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment explores Olga’s grief and identity fracture after her husband’s departure, with a critique by Abhignya, exclusively for Different Truths. Certain books are grim,...

March 14, 2025
Dr Tajamul Islam
Book Review, Poem

Focus: The Body as a Metaphor in Women’s Writing

Dr Tajamul reviews Dr. Aaliya Baba’s debut poetry, “Ode to Silence,” exclusively for Different Truths, highlighting its nuanced literary craft in exploring silences, womanhood, and universal human experiences. “When...

February 22, 2025
Shree Mukherjee
Book Review

Focus: ‘Light Inspired’ Explores the Power of Education & Social Justice

Shree reviews ‘Light Inspired’, by Anuradha Bhattacharyya, a fictionalised account of an educationist who overcomes poverty to educate the underprivileged in India, exclusively for Different Truths. ‘Light Inspired’ is a...

February 20, 2025
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Cinema, Reviews

Dostojee: A Story of Friendship, Love, Loss, and Memory

Ruchira reviews Dostojee, a Bengali film that explores interfaith friendship, grief, childhood innocence, and memory’s lasting power, exclusively for Different Truths. It is very seldom that I get emotional...

February 8, 2025
Azam Gill
Book Review

Focus: Themes of Liberation in Sunset in a Cup

Azam reviews Dr Santosh Bakaya’s “Sunset in a Cup,” a collection of 78 poems that employs vivid imagery and insightful metaphors exclusively for Different Truths. The starburst of sophisticated...

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