Married - Different Truths

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...

March 11, 2024
Saumya
Gender, Special Feature

An Open Letter to India from an Indian Girl

Saumya pens an open letter to India, from an Indian girl, raising pertinent and burning issues that she faces, as part of the Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. Dear India,...

March 8, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
Gender, People, Special Feature

A Knife for Life!

Shail’s short story, a special feature for International Women’s Day, explores the parallels between divorcee Ria and widow Shanta Bai and how they inspire each other, an exclusive for...

April 18, 2023
Smriti Maheshwari
Relationship & Lifestyle

The Delicious Dangers of Online Romance: When and Where to stop?

The Internet has opened the possibility of online romance. It’s heady. Gives an instant high and is deliciously dangerous. Here Smriti, based on her interactions with some of her...

February 28, 2023
Sehar Siddiqi
Education & Career, Gender, Special Feature

Question Marks that Still Haunt the Girl-child Education in India

Many girls are enrolled in schools but they never reach the classroom. Sehar details the reasons for low percentage of the girl-child education, which stops them from empowerment, for Different Truths....

October 3, 2022
Susmita Bhattacharya
Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

Durga Puja Nostalgia: Opening an Old Album and the Paroxysms of Emotions

Freshly returned from South America, first time Durga Puja to experience yet the vast unsettled feeling from being brought to a quite stringent and conservative environment in Batanagar from the...

March 13, 2022
Chirantan Sarkar
Cinema, Gender, Politics, Special Feature

A Narrative on Women, Feminism, Sexuality and Politics in Contemporary India

Sonia Gandhi’s unperturbed state in her husband’s funeral is acceptable to the urban and sophisticated Indians as Sonia Gandhi is cloning a ‘male’ behavior and thus striving to achieve...

March 10, 2022
Mamta Joshi
Gender, Special Feature

The Saga of Indian Reel Women down the Ages: Lights! Camera! Action!

Mamta tells us about the women directors of Bollywood, who have followed the footprints of the pioneers, who broke the glass ceiling, as early as 1920’s, as part of the Special...

February 24, 2022
Smita Agarwal
Poem

Grandmothers

In this evocative poem Smita compares the two worlds of her grandmothers and her’s. A powerful woman-centric poem. Both my grandmothers Were married off in their teens; Bhuvaneshwari at...

February 13, 2022
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri, Special Feature

Love: What They Say!

Shernaz collects quotes on love from writers, poets, scientists, satirists, comedians, actors, singers, artists with gratitude to internet sources. We see the myriad shades of love, as part of Special Feature...

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