Emotions - Different Truths

August 23, 2024
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Folklore, Music, Potpourri

Love in the Time of Monsoons: A Romantic Journey

Ruchira explores the historical significance, cultural impact, and contemporary challenges of the Indian monsoon, highlighting its poetic portrayal in classical music and literature, exclusively for Different Truths. Eons ago,...

June 10, 2024
Payal Talreja
Gender

Boys will (Not) be Boys: Towards a more Human Society

We talk all the time about what we would teach our daughters, but we equally need to engage in reorienting that which is taught to our sons, not just...

March 9, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Gender, People

Getting up on the Inside

We profile ordinary women with extraordinary strength. They find the reservoir of strength within themselves, like Yashodhara. Every year, the Women’s Day becomes a cosmetic celebration of already known...

February 16, 2024
Nandini Mitra
Poem, Special Feature

Fairyland Magic & Soaring Hearts: An Unbridled Romantic Love

Nandini’s evocative poem explores the speaker’s yearning for a love that transcends fleeting feelings, expressing a deep, enduring passion, in the Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. All around...

January 10, 2024
Azam Gill
Criticism, Music, Poem

Ghazal’s Enduring Spell: A Spotlight on its Timeless Legacy

“Aaj Jaanay Ki Zidd Na Karo,” a timeless ghazal, explores love, separation, and emotions. Azam critiques it, exclusively for Different Truths. The Urdu ghazal, Aaj Jaanay Ki Zidd Na Karo, was...

January 10, 2024
Meenakshi
Poem

What is It About You That I Love the Most?

An intense sensuous and erotic love poem, by Meenakshi, for Different Truths. Your eyes, which open you to me The mirror of your soul that tells me when you...

November 20, 2023
Tapati Sinha
History & Culture

A Potion to Heal and Kill

Since thousands of years poisons have been both a deadly threat and a protective tool used around the world. Poisons have played a dominant role in our history and...

October 13, 2023
Aparajita Dutta
Poem

The Sun Drinks my Lemonade

An intense protest poem by Aparajita, in Different Truths. The sun drinks my lemonade, Stoic of the clouds That swell up with my tears, Husbanding a water we have...

September 6, 2023
Saptarshi Mukherjee
Arts, Criticism

Abstract Art as a Challenge to the Mind

Abstract art, a dynamic and influential expression, utilises non-representational elements like line, shape, colour, and texture to evoke emotions and ideas, elucidates Saptarptarshi in an exclusive for Different Truths....

September 4, 2023
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Time for Retiral

Retirement calls for many adjustments in life. Mamta celebrates it in verse, for Different Truths. The shrill alarm bellThe acid refluxOf tightrope walkOf panic hasteDays, months, yearsAt home and...

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