Bare Face
A bold and stark poem by Tatjana I’ve been sick since the very start, I don’t care up to the very end of the game. They lost it. What...
Adieu, my Dear Sampson!
“This is about the dog who adopted me,” writes Sukanya. She knows that he happened to her, that he helped her make wonderful memories, that she loved him so very...
Mofussil Mummies
Smita shows us a slice of life in a laid back mofussil on the World Poetry Day. At seventy five and eighty, Under garden umbrellas They sit on the...
Architecture of Flesh: Gutsy, Intense and Deeply Sensitive
Ravi Shankar a unique voice that is bold and honest, sensitive and rational. He writes spontaneously, from his gut, with guts. He is not ashamed to speak of man’s most...
Is it Wrong to Smile Always?
Is it wrong to smile always? Some feel that always smiling is lying. Champa takes a close look at people who are often judgemental. She feels that there are Different...
Her Heart Bled for a Son, not her Own!
A chance meeting with an elderly, lower middle class woman, on a winter evening, on a train revealed the many trials and tribulations of her simple life. She grapples with...
Deluge of Emotions in the Poems of Tikuli
Vibhuti reviews Tikuli’s book, Collection of Chaos. The reviewer says that the poet has ventured to utilise very different forms of poetry, and yet maintained her voice in it....
The Card Players
A renowned writer, Santosh vividly depicts a scene of a street corner in urban India. She presents a slice of vibrant throbbing life in paroxysm of emotions. In a surprise...
Two Dark Poems
Different Truths introduces poems from this issue. Ratan pens two dark poems that deal with hatred, violence and deaths, unleashing untold miseries that men in the supreme ignorance bring...