Desire - Different Truths

March 18, 2025
Shyamasri Maji
Poem

Love and Longing: A Journey Through Absence and Desire

Aching with longing, Radhe sought Krishna’s love. A vibrant, painful devotion bloomed in his absence, a love poem by Shyamasri, exclusively for Different Truths. In the fire of his...

July 31, 2024
Shalini Samuel
Poem

Clarion Call

A patriotic poem that covers the entire gamut of history and social realities by Shalini, in Different Truths. Mother India’s clarion call to her tenants,Divided by caste you were,...

July 2, 2024
Eimaan Malik
Poem

Torn Between Faith and Desire: Of Love and Torment

Eimaan’s poem, exclusively for Different Truths, tells a heartfelt love story, highlighting guilt, internal conflict, faith, and temptation. I'd tear my heart apartBe your mosaic piece of artHad I...

June 24, 2024
Tapati Sinha
Cover Story, Health, History & Culture, Opinion

The Game of Life and Death…

The concept of ‘good death’ (euthanasia) existed in the ancient world. Medical assistance was not needed when the Homeric warrior died as a hero and was expected to accept...

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...

May 30, 2024
Tooba Masood
Gender

The Right Shade of Feminism

Feminism has many layers of meaning. Tooba critiques it, saying that with concepts like feminism, it is sad that much of what it never stood for is now attributed...

May 28, 2024
Harinder Cheema
Governance

Break Free from the Cage: Overcome Desires

Harinder’s poem is about a restless soul’s yearning for enlightenment that laments worldly distractions and desires true devotion, exclusively for Different Truths. The clock is ticking.And I am wasting...

April 16, 2024
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Missing on a Weekend

A bold prose-poem of Deeya, in Different Truths, set in the urban settings and sensibilities of the 21st century. Weekends are subterfuges in love, desire, pain. They are the extra...

December 7, 2023
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Potpourri

The Silver Bowl

Ruchira reminisces about a silver set for a cousin’s wedding, many moons ago, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Looking back now, I am inclined to believe...

November 30, 2023
Sushmita Gupta
Poem

Gift Box

Here’s an inward looking, woman-centric poem from Sushmita. An evocative poem for Different Truths. Even though,I am no one,Or nothing,To you,Strangely,I became,Your gift box,That keeps,Giving. You marvel,At my giving,And at...

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