Reviews - Different Truths

December 4, 2021
Megha Sood
Book Review, Poem

Poems on Feminism, Immigration, Discrimination & Violence Against Women

Megha reviews Anita Nahal’s What’s Wrong with us Kali Women. An exclusive for Different Truths. This riveting collection of seventy prose poems exposes the artful mastery of lyrical intensity seeded...

November 29, 2021
Lopamudra Banerjee
Cinema, Criticism, Novel

Wuthering Heights: A Journey from the Novel to the Movie

Lopamudra revisits Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, and its various film adaptations. She likes the 1992 version of the movie. A critique, exclusively for Different Truths. A Gothic tale...

November 27, 2021
Dr. Sutanuka Ghosh Roy
Book Review, Fiction

Where Silence Speaks Louder than Words

Dr. Sutanuka reviews, No One an Outsider: Varanasi Tales, by Vivek Nath Mishra. An exclusive for Different Truths. No One an Outsider is Vivek Nath Mishra’s second collection of short stories,...

November 6, 2021
Mamta Pathak
Book Review, Poem

Analysis of Socio-political & Cultural Issues of Contemporary Times in Bhaskar’s Poems

Mamta reviews Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar’s book of poetry, Two Indias and Other Poems. An exclusive for Different Truths. Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar is a young and dynamic poet basking in...

October 23, 2021
Basudhara Roy
Book Review

Manifestations of Light in Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca’s Poems

Basudhara reviews Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca’s ‘Light of the Sabbath’, her latest chapbook, exclusively for Different Truths. All around us, light is ubiquitous. And yet, how much of this light...

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...

October 16, 2021
Niharika Chibber Joe
Book Review, Gender, Health

Living with Stage-4 Cancer Indira Inspires to Defeat Disease & Death in her Memoir

Fast Forward to Hope: Choosing to Build the Power of Self by Indira Kaur Ahluwalia is an extraordinary new memoir about living with a Stage-4 metastatic cancer diagnosis. Niharika...

October 7, 2021
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Dance, Interview, Music

Dance is Ranjana Gauhar’s Life-Breath

Ruchira picked the brains of the famous Oddissi danseuse, Ranjana Gauhar, a Delhi-based artiste. Here’s an exclusive interview with Different Truths. I have had several opportunities to watch her...

September 25, 2021
Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar
Book Review, Poem

Pied Poesy: Evolving Trends & Techniques in Contemporary Maithili Poetry

Bhaskaranand reviews Pied Poesy, an anthology of 55 contemporary Maithili poets, edited by Dr. Lalitesh Mishra. Covering a large sweep of subjects and themes, it presents a paroxysm of...

September 18, 2021
Dr. Nabanita Sengupta
Book Review, Poem

To Trip, Climb, or Circle: A Poet’s Engagement With Life & the World

Nabanita reviews Trips Climbs Circles, an anthology of sixty poems, by Madhu Sriwastav. An exclusive for Different Truths. Genre: Poetry Poet: Madhu Sriwastav Pages: 90 Meena Alexander once wrote,...

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