Distress - Different Truths

March 12, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Get Around the Molehills of Life

We often imagine situations far worse than they are. In short, we create a mountain out of molehills. Shernaz tells us how to overcome this problem, exclusively in Different...

February 14, 2023
Different Truths Poets
Poem, Special Feature

A Mini-Anthology of Poems on V-Day

On the occasion of the Valentine’s Day, we bring to you a mini-anthology of six poems from India and Mauritius, showing many colours of love. Lily ponders about what...

November 7, 2022
Amidha Porter
Opinion

Decoding the Soul: The Tarot as Projective Method

We wish to know the inner meanings of our lives. The power to facilitate both inner and outer understanding goes much farther back. A psychotherapist, Amidha, has seen that modern projective...

October 20, 2022
Farah Siddiqui M
Poem

My Soul Twirls

Farah is pained by the poverty and squalor on streets. She voices it in this verse. My soul twirls and faces mistreatment Whenever I glimpse life, living on the street Patchy clothes, torn blankets,...

October 1, 2022
Tapati Sinha
Fiction, Humor, Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

A Slice of Divine Life: Live from Kailash

Here’s Tapati’s fictional Durga-Shiva dialogues, full of banter, repartee, wit, and humour, create a laughter riot, an exclusive Special Feature for Different Truths. “Shiva seems too busy these days!...

January 9, 2021
Tali Cohen Shabtai
Poem

She Bore the Yoke

A distress poem about women, by Tali, exclusively for Different Truths. For his deeds The mother Got The decree. His errors Like marks of judgment In my vow...

November 7, 2020
Tali Cohen Shabtai
Poem

I Visited God

A distress poem about a woman, by Israeli poet Tali, exclusively for Different Truths. I visitedGodToday A handful accompany meNo needOf manyTo carry a womanTo the marrying-place To marryDeath....

March 28, 2020
Abu Siddik
Fiction

A Wool Seller

August 24, 2018
IPA Service
Natural Calamity, Politics

Going Up in Smoke That Never Was: A USD 100 Million from UAE

UAE ambassador to India Ahmed Albanna confirms that no aid offer of Rs 700 crore was made by the UAE. This places the Vijayan government in Kerala, the state...

June 27, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

An Invalid Character Certificate

A loose comments by a senior officer about the character of the author, in the presence of her husband – they are officers in the Assam state services –...

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