Forehead - Different Truths

January 15, 2025
Vatsala Radhakeesoon
Poem

True Love, at Last!

Here’s a soulful love poem by Vatsala, for Different Truths. Like an elegant knighthe softly holds my hand,Lovingly, he imprintsprotective kisses on my forehead In contrast to my past-Scars...

April 30, 2024
Anika Ghei
Gender, Poem

Fast Forward

A bold, sensuous, agonising, and brutally candid verse. In Yeats’ words, ‘the ceremony of innocence is dead.’ Here’s the intense prose-poem by Anika, in Different Truths. Play: It’s my...

September 27, 2022
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem, Religion, Special Feature

Durga, the Matri Shakti

Deeya, a feminist poet, invokes Durga, the Divine Mother, the fountainhead of Shakti (Energy), in an intense poem, as the special feature exclusively for Different Truths. The porous moon...

March 7, 2022
Harshali Singh
Gender, Short Story, Special Feature

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...

February 14, 2022
Anumita Roy
Short Story, Special Feature

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...

January 6, 2022
Sutapa Basu
Novella, Special Feature

Black Magic

With grit, faith and hard work, she built a whole new world for herself literally out of thin air. But when Jharna was attacked by the forces of Evil, will...

December 21, 2021
Lovita J. R. Morang
Fiction, Special Feature, Special Needs

God of Everything Falls

September 27, 2018
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, People, Place, Politics

South Sudan: A Country in Perpetual Turmoil

Salva Kiir Mayardit took oath as the first president of the Republic that day in 2011, the new nation not only gratefully savored its first moments of independence from...

September 13, 2018
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Lifestyle, Parenting

Terrible Twins, Their Big Brother, and a Doting Grandmother

Dr. Amrinder takes a break for her busy schedule to spend a day with her grandchildren, big brother, Jashn, and twin little sisters, Anya and Alia. With three grandchildren,...

June 19, 2018
Ayub Khawar
Poem

The Whore

An enigmatic and evocative poem by Ayub, exclusively for Different Truths. This darkness Of the room why doesn’t become darker? Memories of the past flicker on the walls,...

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