Beautiful - Different Truths

March 12, 2022
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Gender, Special Feature

Emancipation of Women: Many More Miles to Go

Loads of spunky women are performing daring feats which their mothers and grandmother didn’t even dream about. They are making their presence felt. Yet, lots need to be done to ensure...

March 11, 2022
Debjani Mukherjee
Gender, Human Rights, Special Feature

African Women Stand Tall against Female Genital Mutilation

Butchering girls’ private parts, cutting out healthy flesh in the name of religious ritual is barbaric. Whenever a girl or a woman gets cut, she becomes exposed to numeric...

March 11, 2022
Tapati Sinha
Gender, Special Feature

An Open Letter to my Dear Daughter

Tapati raises several issues that concern women, in her open letter to Sukanya, her daughter, as part of the Special Feature. A Different Truths exclusive. Dear Sukanya, Sukanya, I...

March 11, 2022
Different Truths Poets
Gender, Poem, Special Feature

Still I Rise: IWD 2018, Anthology of Poems

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2018, Different Truths Poets present an anthology of poems, celebrating the woman, in paroxysms of emotions, enigmatic and multilayered, like...

March 10, 2022
Pyusha Chatterjee Singh
Films, Gender, Special Feature

Liberated Leading Ladies of the Celluloid

Pyusha takes a look at some of the unconventional female characters and women-centric films Bollywood has produced in the recent years. She critiques such films with thumbnail reviews, as...

March 8, 2022
Dr. Brajesh Kumar Gupta
Gender, Special Feature

African Women and Colonisation

Many of the approaches used to analyse African colonial politics, economies, societies, and cultures were often gender-blind and tended to ignore women’s lives, experiences, contributions, voices, perceptions, representations, and struggles....

March 7, 2022
Harshali Singh
Gender, Short Story, Special Feature

Three Glasses of Wine

A plush villa, a luxurious life and hidden beneath it a life that’s futile. Harshali weaves an intense story of a woman who is trapped in her pain. But...

February 26, 2022
Rajashree Mohapatra
Poem

Unscreened Folds

An evocative love poem, by Rajashree, exclusively for Different Truths. If it were a paper boat ... Might not be destined to flow If it were cursed ... Might...

February 14, 2022
Anumita Roy
Short Story, Special Feature

My Gift of Valentine!

The doctor’s verdict was a shock. She read the paper given to her; it said how to take care during the first trimester. She was pregnant! Anumita tells us how...

January 7, 2022
Anumita Roy
Short Story, Special Feature

A Wrinkled Smile

A short story based on real life that explores various layers of relationships, by Anumita, our Managing Editor, exclusively for Different Truths. Kathy watched the bony fingers holding her...

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