Rice and Shine
Food is about nostalgia. It brings with it laughter and joy. Cholena takes us through the delights of rice-based delicacies that brings back the love and care of her mother....
Labour Bondage: An Ignored Reality of India, 50Mn. People Trapped in Slavery
Archana takes a hard look at the grim world of bonded labourers. Walk Free Foundation (2013) ranks India to be number one country with the largest number of bonded labourers....
Spare my Child, Take my Breath Away…
On World Asthma Day, Anumita shares the trial and tribulations that she faced as a young mother of an asthmatic infant. Here’s a candid account of one mother, but it’s...
Bronchial Asthma in Children
Asthma is on the rise globally because of urbanisation, industrialisation, environmental pollution and global warming. Globally there are about 150 million asthmatics, of which 50% are children. In India...
Towards Dawn: Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Brick Kilns
Lenin takes us through the sordid and macabre accounts of contemporary slavery in brick kilns, based on actual accounts of the hapless victims. Driven by hunger and starvation, many children die...
Break Silence, Give Voice to Bonded Labourers & Human Right Violations
We, at Different Truths, are taking up the cause of millions of people in India and world over. These hapless people bear untold miseries in silence. Caught in debt traps,...
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...