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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If Only
Men often fail to see what women would have liked them to observe and understand. Here’s such anguish by Meenakshi, in this evocative verse, in Different Truths. He...