Distance and Destined
Here’s a love poem from Lata, in Different Truths. Far away from your city, sitting beneath the stars, my impatient heart and sensible mind were fighting a deadly war.One...
The Ultimate
A sensuous and erotic poem by Amrinder, for Different Truths. Soaring of passions like Powerful winged birds. A cataract of pleasure Cascading over flesh. Grim determined pursuits Without civilised...
Harmonised
An evocative poem by Elsy, in Different Truths. They moved into an abode new by the railway line when she was nine. Sleep became alien as chugged the...
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...
Nourishing Night
Here’s a poem, by Arun, in the tradition of the Romantics, wherein the poet’s love for the night, in Different Truths, is invigorating. The myriad conversations I hold with...
Lost Realm
Here’s a poem by Aishwarya that depicts the trial and tribulations of life’s journey and the final destination, for Different Truths. I feel at times I am not me...
Three Healthy Foods to Help Check Depression
Ritambhara tells us how food can help fight depression, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Depression is one of the chronic diseases amounting to increasing suicide rates...
Are We Becoming More and More Isolated?
Studies suggest social isolation is associated with a higher rate of death in older people and loneliness is the “hidden killer” of the elderly. Nikita reveals the ugly underbelly of our...
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...
Shirdi and Sai Baba: Now and Then
Commercialisation has edged out the beautiful ambiance of the 1980s and 90s. The simple village, Shirdi, has lost its charm and innocence. Tribhawan tells us about the sad loss,...