Bleed - Different Truths

March 11, 2024
Saumya
Gender, Special Feature

An Open Letter to India from an Indian Girl

Saumya pens an open letter to India, from an Indian girl, raising pertinent and burning issues that she faces, as part of the Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. Dear India,...

November 29, 2023
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

I can not Celebrate you

An intense poem by Deeya that braids alienation and love. I can’t celebrate youScraps of junk you rotin my mind – the sudden stab in my ribsdoesn’t bleed through...

March 28, 2023
Vatsala Radhakeesoon
Poem

Mental Suffering

Alienation adds to the turmoil and mental sufferings of a person. The contrast of the chirping birds with a bleeding heart is rooted in the legacy of romanticism. A sensitive...

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...

April 9, 2021
Prof. Sanjoy Saksena
Poem

Interface in Sisterhood

An intense, woman-centric, protest poem, by Prof. Sanjoy, exclusively for Different Truths. I am no birdie but an albatross Spanning ocean depths. Those who come Under my wings are...

July 4, 2018
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Potpourri

Have a Heart

‘Have a heart.’ People say figuratively to the heartless but what of the mite who literally did not have a heart to speak of, or rather one too small to...

June 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Gossip, Rumour and Test-Tube Sita: Guessing Game over Pranab Da or Mamata Di

There’s no limit to the cycle of birth and rebirth; to rumour and gossip. Mamata Didi’s post-mortem of the BJP in Purulia after leaving to the vultures the carcass...

January 29, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Where Cows Get Ambulances and Boys Bleed to Death

Soon after the ‘Yogi’ became CM, the state government had unveiled a fleet of ambulances to move ailing cows “to the hospital” and everyone cheered. But what about human...

October 23, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Poem

Her Flight

In this poignant verse, Sumita likens the life of a woman to that of a kite, in Different Truths. Her dreams soared high like a kite in full flight,...

October 18, 2017
Maj Gen Raj Singh Mehta
History & Culture, War & Conflicts

The 1962 Sino-Indian War: Recalling a War that was not …it was an Indian Rout

Fought both along the 890 km long McMahon Line and opposite Western Tibet in the Ladakh region of our 4056 km long Sino-Indian borders, the 1962 War showed us...

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