poem - Different Truths

October 11, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Gender

Divorced Women should not Lose Their Self-esteem

Whether it’s the fault of women or not, they are the ones who are almost always blamed for divorce in the patriarchal society. Mahima, with the help of noted psychiatrists,...

October 8, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

My Silence/ I Cherish a Leap of Love

Here are two poems by Sarala, in Different Truths. The first poem is inward-looking, a tribute to a mother. The second verse is an outward journey, where the poet...

October 5, 2017
Lovita J. R. Morang
Poem

Ten Shades of Forbidden Clay: Nishiddho Pallis

Lovita pays her homage to the goddesses, Durga, Kali and Laxhmi, as we worship the goddess of wealth, today. Here’s an intense poem, a social commentary, exclusively in Different...

September 28, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Poem, Religion, Science & Technology

Annual Nirvana

Rita’s poem shakes us from the complacency and the taken for granted attitude. Here’s the sensibility of a compassionate social activist, in verse, as a special feature, in Different...

September 26, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Poem, Special Feature

The Mother

Shail invokes Goddess Mother Durga, in a verse, in Different Truths Mother has come home visiting her children like she does every year for nine days in various forms...

September 23, 2017
Olaitan Maryam Mojisola
Poem

There is a Mad Girl in Me

An intense poem by Olaitan, wherein the poet wants to break shackles. Here’s a protest poem, in Different Truths. Sometimes, I just want to run out Of this world,...

September 20, 2017
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

It is you

A poem by Elsy that celebrates the innocence of babies, in Different Truths. The tiny tot saw her snapshot at month three and cooed, ‘look, baby brother!’. Mom said,...

September 16, 2017
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Poem

Woes of Yesterday

Anoucheka warns us of yesterday’s woes that’s past and is gone, in this evocative poem, in Different Truths. Yesterday’s woes should be left where they are In a reality...

September 10, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Crime, Human Rights, Science & Technology

Gauri Lankesh Gunned Down, Brit Paedophile Assaults Blind Children, Personal Data as Currency and Golf through Fire

Shail re-creates four news of the week gone by in verse. A fearless journalist, Gauri Lankesh, was gunned down at point blank range at her Bangalore home, by unknown...

September 9, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Anita Nair, a Journey towards Melliorism: The Better Man to Chain of Custody

Basudeb critiques the novels of Anita Nair, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Shornur at the district of Palakkad, Kerala, is Anita Nair’s birth place. She...

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