Heartbeat - Different Truths

July 3, 2024
Rupa Rao
Poem

Beyond the Heartbeat: How Love Fuels Learning

Rupa’s poem explores love’s emotional rollercoaster, highlighting its ability to ignite learning and teach profound lessons and provide wisdom exclusively for Different Truths. Love inspires learningemotions: sweet, sore, tormenting,Love...

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...

January 26, 2021
Gopal Lahiri
Poem

Aeolian Alphabets

A surreal poem, rich in imagery, by Gopal, exclusively for Different Truths. A hyphen rests between the cobble and pebble there is this soft light dips and rises draw...

September 22, 2018
Different Truths Poets
Poem

Anthology of Poems on Africa of Earth and Beauty

We present an Anthology of Poems, on Africa, wherein 66 poets, with as many poems, spread across 19 nations [India (41); Nigeria (8); two each from the US and...

July 11, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

Discretion is the Better Part of Valour

Hemashri recounts how she handled a violent mob – an experience that she had shared during a training session of officers. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively for...

June 9, 2018
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

Sleet Smile

An evocative verse by Elsy where Nature and life intertwine transcending from the individual to the cosmic sensibility, exclusively for Different Truths. Tonight, it is sleet, silently creeping down...

May 11, 2018
Basudeb Chakraborti
Religion, Travel & Food

An Inward Journey to Bodh Gaya: An Awakening of the Self

The Buddhist temples built by many South Asian countries here are unique for pervasive tranquillity that penetrates even the heart of an atheist. The silence is so deep that...

February 8, 2018
Madhumita Bhattacharjee Nayyar
Poem

Love

An intense love poem by Madhumita, for Different Truths. The air is thick with the grey damp fog, wet and cold, as the frost gradually froze, Yet I still...

January 25, 2018
Madhumita Bhattacharjee Nayyar
Poem

Love

Here’s a poignant love poem, by Madhumita, for Different Truths. The air is thick with the grey damp fog, wet and cold, as the frost gradually froze, Yet I...

October 12, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem, Special Feature

International Day of the Girl Child

Here’s an evocative and poignant verse by Sarala on International Girl Child’s Day, exclusively in Different Truths. She is a precious stone Value unknown She is a bundle of...

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