Innocence - Different Truths

August 3, 2024
Anika Ghei
Fiction

House Number 23.

Here’s a mysterious story by Anika. From this Saturday, we are introducing a talented teenage fiction writer, exclusively in Different Truths. After hours of inspecting every nook and corner...

June 17, 2024
Aishwarya Damodar
Poem

Here’s an inward-looking, women-centric poem where Aishwarya talks of her voyage, her insecurities and strengths, for Different Truths. as I pondered in silence...my life reeled before mefrom when I’d...

May 22, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri

My Jigsaw Fairy

Tooth Fairy or not, a fairy guided Shernaz through the jigsaw puzzle of life. Read more about it exclusively in Different Truths. When I lost my first milk tooth,...

May 8, 2024
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

The Young Widow of Benaras

Here’s a heart-wrenching tale of a young widow of Benaras by Sarala, in Different Truths. The young widow in white attireWrapped around carelesslyhardly married for six monthsSitting under the...

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...

April 25, 2024
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Desperate Lies

An intense soulful poem by Deeya, in Different Truths. Always come to me in desolate nights when I speak the language of salt in the sea; of charcoal madness...

April 17, 2024
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

She

An evocative poem by Sarala that celebrates the innocence of a girl-child within an old woman, in Different Truths. Behind her silvery threads Creaking bones Wrinkled face Lifeless eyes Still,...

January 17, 2024
Tapati Sinha
History & Culture, Religion

Makar Sankranti: A Pan-Indian Solar Festival Celebrating Bounty

Makar Sankranti is an important pan-Indian solar festival, known by different names. It is known as Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Pedda Panduga in Andhra Pradesh, Bihu in Assam, Magha...

October 4, 2023
Aprajita Gupta
Poem

Confessions of a Un-victim

People are increasingly becoming small, self-centred and conceited. Here’s a protest poem by Aprajita, a take on social issue, in Different Truths. Ghastly screech travelled through my porous walls last...

July 27, 2023
Tribhawan Kaul
Religion, Travelogue

Shirdi and Sai Baba: Now and Then

Commercialisation has edged out the beautiful ambiance of the 1980s and 90s. The simple village, Shirdi, has lost its charm and innocence. Tribhawan tells us about the sad loss,...

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