• September 7, 2023
  • Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh

Paan: A Tradition Under Fire

Paan significantly influences India’s culture, influencing gastronomy, hospitality, and everyday life, but its use has caused spit stains in public spaces, observes Ruchira, exclusively for Different Truths. The life...
  • September 7, 2023
  • Elsy Satheesan

Harmonised

An evocative poem by Elsy, in Different Truths. They moved into an abode new by the railway line when she was nine.   Sleep became alien as chugged the...
  • September 5, 2023
  • Rajashree Mohapatra

Another Love Poem

An evocative love poem, full of longing, by Rajashree, exclusively for Different Truths. Indeed, I am a lamp misread in a waxed night As the tenebrosity deliquesces I turn...
  • September 4, 2023
  • Mamta Joshi

Time for Retiral

Retirement calls for many adjustments in life. Mamta celebrates it in verse, for Different Truths. The shrill alarm bellThe acid refluxOf tightrope walkOf panic hasteDays, months, yearsAt home and...