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July 31, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Relationship & Lifestyle

Is Money the Root of all Evil?

The idea that money is the be-all and end-all of life has become ingrained into human consciousness. Being in a consumerist and capitalist modern society we learn to woo material riches,...

March 8, 2024
Abha Iyengar
Gender, Poem, Special Feature

We Mean Business, Baby

Here’s a protest poem by Abha, on the occasion of International Women’s Day (IWD), exclusively in Different Truths. They sayYou have come a long way, baby.I say I have...

July 13, 2023
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Tranquillity / Life is an Ordeal

Here are two poems by Sarala, in Different Truths. The first poem, Tranquility, is about seeking and attaining. The second poem, Life is an Ordeal, shows what poverty and...

June 3, 2023
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Claustrophobia

An intense and poignant prose poem by Deeya, in Different Truths. Pinned against a wall a moth flutters desperately. It isn’t his wall. I can wall up my desperateness...

December 5, 2022
Shernaz Wadia
Gender, Human Rights

Why is it a Curse to be a Girl-child?

Shernaz fictionalises a real-life account where the daughter, a girl-child, in dire need of kidney transplant was left uncared for. No medical expenses were provisioned for her since she...

January 10, 2022
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Poem

Dr. Roopali’s poem, on a socio-economic issue, sharpens the North-South divide. An exclusive for Different Truths. Ask and thou shalt receive, they said and turned me away at the...

February 11, 2020
Ken Allan Dronsfield
Poem

The Absence of Presence, Version III

August 18, 2018
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

The Forgotten Melodies…

An evocative poem by Sarala about the curse of dementia, exclusively for Different Truths. He sits alone on a chair Looking lost in his own world He does not...

May 18, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Consolidation of Anti-BJP Forces is the Need of the Hour

All the top leaders of Left parties who greeted the Congress of Communist Party of India held at Kollam, Kerala, too confirmed the urgent need to unite all secular,...

February 13, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

The Holy Book, a Maid, and the Kingdom of Wisdom…

Hemashri talks about the Holy Book, Gita, a maid (read casual worker) named after the Sacred Book and the kingdom of wisdom that awaits. Read more in the weekly...

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