By the Force of my Doom
A distress, woman-centric poem, by Tali, exclusively for Different Truths. By the force of my doom The outcast The blood of disgrace Is in menstruation. And not...
Crossdressing: Why Men Cannot Dress Like Women?
Shormita analyses why it’s not proper for men to crossdress like women. An exclusive for Different Truths. Have you heard about crossdressers? Crossdressing is an act in which a...
Indian Women’s Safety in Dire Straits
Women and the civil society throughout India are protesting the recent controversial judgement by Justice Pushpa V Ganediwala, of the Bombay High Court, regarding a sexual assault case of...
Curious Identity: The Intersex People
Shormita explains that intersex people are born with defective sex organs or mixed sexual organs or mixed chromosomes or hormonal imbalance within their body. An exclusive for Different Truths. Few...
Patriarchy and the Female Gender: As I have Seen it
As a small girl, at her home, Lopamudra came face-to-face with patriarchy, red in tooth and claw. She reveals the stranglehold of male domination in a Bengali Brahmin family,...
Non-Acceptance of Transgenders in the Middle East
Transgenders and other in-between gender preferences find no acceptance in most of the Middle East countries, informs Shormita. An exclusive for Different Truths. Gender binary plays a major role...
Why we Need to Choose the Right Battles against Patriarchy
There was a bandwagon of our Bollywood actors and starlets copy-pasting ‘smash patriarchy’ caption across their Instagram stories in solidarity with Chakraborty. After “nepotism,” “patriarchy” was the next trending...
Karwachauth: An Epitome of Tradition or Patriarchy?
Indian festivals based on marriage, the observance of Karwachauth, of Teej, Chhath, Vat Savitri, etc. are all centred on longevity – not of women but men. Patriarchy is insidiously...
Shivelight: The Semiotics of Resistance Through Storytelling
In Shivelight and Other Stories, Jayita talks about the semiotics of resistance through storytelling. It’s from a woman’s perspective. An exclusive for Different Truths. ‘Shivelight’ is the title story of...
The Facade of Dignity of Labour
Deep-rooted patriarchy puts men on a pedestal because of which several women succumb to the family traditions that allow men to ‘work’, opines Enakshi. An exclusive for Different Truths....