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May 31, 2024
Farheen Viquas
Poem

Rhyme of the Dark Skin

A poignant verse about fairness, dark skin, and true beauty by Farheen, in DifferentTruths. Played in the sun and tanned her face In happiness quotient, she bagged first placeNo time...

March 27, 2023
Aishwarya Damodar
Poem

Worlds Apart…

There are the tussle and turmoil between the mundane and the noble worlds, in Aishwarya’s verse, in Different Truths. En route this journey of life... through the concrete jungle,...

March 18, 2023
Olaitan Maryam Mojisola
Poem

An intense poem by Olaitan, in Different Truths. Are the beautiful faces That paint the nights, They are the resounding tick-tocks Of silent kissesOnly found in dark corners. Streetlights are the four...

December 13, 2022
Vinita Agrawal
Governance

Musings

Poignant, melancholic poems by Vinita – exclusively for Different Truths. 1. Between Chaukhambha and Nanda Devi, grow the hardy stencils of a winter shrub – flowers drooping with frost...

July 30, 2022
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

Incandescent

Here’s an evocative poem by Lopamudra, celebrating the many layers of a woman. Shining on, the incandescent flame of her body And being, resounds in scarlet dreams. Her shadow,...

July 8, 2022
Sehar Siddiqi
Poem

Unfinished Love

Here’s a poignant poem from Sehar. The metaphors of the tree and mountains are powerful. Tonight, as I sit down to write a few verses, The ink in the...

May 13, 2022
Ashok Bhowmick
Arts, Painting

Coal Miners and the Canary

Coal was used as a common fuel in homes and it also energised the steam engines. Ashok travels from lumps of coals to coal mines. He finds that the canary,...

May 5, 2022
Emmie Blake
Poem

Exile

An evocative dark poem, by Emmie, exclusively for Different Truths. Sea gusts pluck my hijab. Sea spray soaks my face, mingling with salt tears flowing down apace. They came...

September 20, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Travel & Food

Snapshots from South: A Redux

Ruchira tells us about two getaways, both quaint, in Kerala. These are Poovar and Padmanabhapuram Palace, in the weekly column. A Different Truths exclusive. While writing my memoirs about...

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...

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