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...
A Caged Bird / Colour
Here are two poems by Simran. She feels the agonising pain of a bird held captive in a cage and the sweet pain of love. A Caged Bird A caged...
A City’s Penance
Here’s a social commentary in verse by Mamta. An undying treeOn the banks of rivers threeTwo polluted, one mythicalA C'ezanne brown medieval fortMysterious shadowsetched under its arches and columnsSilently...
Why My Father Swam?
Joyce tells us about a father-daughter relationship in this poem. An exclusive for Different Truths. impossible to solvethe riddle of why his mothergave him to the nunstheir faded eyebrowspinched...
When the Words Committed Harakiri
Santosh, in her humourous poem, tells us how words handle a writer. “They misuse us, abuse us Malappropriate us,” said words of every hue Confabulating in a word-conference Quivering...
The Wingspan Of Sorrow
A poignant poem by Reena. It’s intense and sensuous. If I stoopit is to drink deep of youmy doppelgänger, black and greyI wear your shades better than any otherwanting...
Grandmothers
In this evocative poem Smita compares the two worlds of her grandmothers and her’s. A powerful woman-centric poem. Both my grandmothers Were married off in their teens; Bhuvaneshwari at...
May Light Precede Footsteps
Anumita talks about Saptapadi(1). The groom leads three circumambulations around the fire but from the fourth, the bride leads. Seven vows unite them for seven lives. May your light precede...
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...
Valentine-Day Blues!
Humourist Soumya shares a fictionalised story of his daughter, Medha, and her Valentine’s Day blues. Here’s a special feature, on the eve of the V-Day, in the weekly column,...