Light - Different Truths

August 1, 2022
Rituparna Khan
Poem

A Maiden, Light and Shadows

An evocative poem by Rituparna explores a maiden’s binaries of light and shadows – exclusively for Different Truths. Fair-toned maiden, your feet never touch the ground. Fair-toned maiden, your...

May 6, 2022
Ketaki Mazumdar
Poem

Indelible Patterns

A poignant poem about the mystical magic of nature, by Ketaki, exclusively for Different Truths. You tread softly, Like a butterfly visiting… On my moments of sadness and depleting...

April 1, 2022
Amita Sanghavi
Poem

Love as Light, Light as Love

An evocative love poem, by Amita, exclusively for Different Truths. You are my voice. I am your poem. My lyrics Light up Your unborn tunes, Awaken your music Beyond...

March 13, 2022
Michele Baron
Gender, History & Culture, Special Feature

Women Struggled More Than a Century for Empowerment

In Copenhagen, 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, German activist Clara Zetkin raised a vote, supported by women from 17 nations, to organise an International Working Women’s Day....

March 12, 2022
Different Truths Poets
Poem, Special Feature

An Anthology of Poems Celebrating Womanhood

We are pleased to present An Anthology of Poems Celebrating Womanhood, as part of the International Women’s Day (IWD) Theme that we, in Different Truths are featuring, spread over three days,...

March 8, 2022
Dr. Brajesh Kumar Gupta
Gender, Special Feature

African Women and Colonisation

Many of the approaches used to analyse African colonial politics, economies, societies, and cultures were often gender-blind and tended to ignore women’s lives, experiences, contributions, voices, perceptions, representations, and struggles....

February 23, 2022
Anumita Roy
Poem

May Light Precede Footsteps

Anumita talks about Saptapadi(1). The groom leads three circumambulations around the fire but from the fourth, the bride leads. Seven vows unite them for seven lives. May your light precede...

November 11, 2021
Dr. Kumud Bala
Poem

I am an Earthen Lamp

An evocative poem, by Dr. Kumud, wherein an earthen lamp tells its story. An exclusive for Different Truths. I am an earthen lamp breathe slowly One who has created...

May 11, 2021
Ranjan Ghosh
Aesthetics, Education, History & Culture, Special Feature, Tribute

Aesthetics, Politics, Pedagogy and Tagore

Tagore rested on his desire for a far-off planet, listened to the invitation of a dream and did not allow the spaceship to rust. His journeys and envisagements, however,...