poet - Different Truths

September 27, 2024
Urna Bose
Criticism, Literature, People, Poem

Discovering the Hidden Gems of Keki Daruwalla’s Poetry

Keki N Daruwalla is decorated police personnel, a security consultant brushing shoulders with the Prime Minister of India, politics, poetry, short stories, novels – a kaleidoscope in motion. Urna...

September 4, 2024
Dr Sanjukta Dasgupta
Tribute

Relevance of Anti-War Literature: A Focus on Hemingway and Nazrul Islam

Sanjukta examines the lives and works of 20th-century literary figures Ernest Hemingway and Kazi Nazrul Islam, highlighting their commitment to social justice and anti-war sentiments, exclusively for Different Truths....

April 16, 2024
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Missing on a Weekend

A bold prose-poem of Deeya, in Different Truths, set in the urban settings and sensibilities of the 21st century. Weekends are subterfuges in love, desire, pain. They are the extra...

February 8, 2024
Shernaz Wadia
Relationship & Lifestyle

A Sense of Wonder

We are miracles we need to delve into. Those who stop to wonder and ask life what it is trying to divulge, are attuned to an awareness that looks...

August 27, 2023
Urna Bose
Criticism, Interview, Poem

Jayanta Mahapatra: A Life in Poetry, 1928-2023

On Sunday, Jayanta Mahapatra (1928–2023), a poet and literary figure of international renown, passed away at the age of 95 while receiving medical care at SCB Medical College and...

July 22, 2023
Urna Bose
Criticism, Interview, Poem

Adil Jussawalla: An Outsider’s Journey through Poetry and Homelessness

Adil Jussawalla, an Indian poet with a complex background and a distinctive voice, defies categorisation and is instrumental in moulding the poetry of an entire generation. He reveals unknown...

June 2, 2023
Monika Ajay Kaul
Poem

Where is the Edge?

Here’s an evocative, soul-searching poem by Monika, in Different Truths. A strenuous path, the future seems. Even if we tread, it would be like aVoyage to nowhere, deprived of...

March 4, 2023
Urna Bose
Interview, Poem

‘A Poet Channels Deep Inner Grief into Words and Metaphors’

Renowned poet Vinita Agrawal talks about her journey into the realm of books, inner grief, atmospheric poetry and more with Urna – an exclusive for Different Truths. Have you ever felt like bolting out the noise,...

January 9, 2023
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
Poem

Of Flaws and Gifts

An autobiographical poem by Kavita where she talks about her father, Nissim Ezekiel – exclusively for Different Truths. (After the late poet Nissim Ezekiel’s poem ‘I Met a Man...

November 22, 2022
Soumya Mukherjee
History & Culture, People, Travel & Food

A Security Personnel and a Gatekeeper Poet

A security guard doubled as a guide. He was an Ahom, perhaps a descendant of this forgotten kingdom, and he was a writer, poet, and musician by vocation. A...

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