Poetry

March 24, 2022
Mitali Chakravarty
Poem

Magic Dust

Here’s an anti-war poem, by Mitali, that celebrates poetry. An exclusive for Different Truths. Naked words sear truths across the universe melting swords dripping venom and blood. The Truth...

March 2, 2022
Joyce Yarrow
Poem

Why My Father Swam?

Joyce tells us about a father-daughter relationship in this poem. An exclusive for Different Truths. impossible to solvethe riddle of why his mothergave him to the nunstheir faded eyebrowspinched...

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...

February 8, 2022
Joyce Yarrow
Arts, Music

How Music Saved My Life!

Those were the days of Hippie movement and flower children. While life and living seemed gloomy, music was the much needed panacea. Here’s a personal account how of music saved...

December 21, 2021
Lovita J. R. Morang
Fiction, Special Feature, Special Needs

God of Everything Falls

October 8, 2021
Kamrun Nahar
Governance

Kamrun muses about poetry, in this verse, exclusively for Different Truths. O poetry I waited for you for a long, long time… I created a garden using nice flowering...

July 20, 2021
Ismail Bala
Criticism, Poem, Special Feature

Notes on Translating Poems of Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino into English

Every language has its own qualities, not only in the poetic or linguistic sense, but also in the manner in which through the uniqueness of that language, the speakers...

May 12, 2021
Dr. Partha Banerjee
Dance, Language, Migration & Diaspora, Multiculturalism, Music, People, Place, Special Feature, Theatre, Tribute

One Last Tagore Birthday before My Death

A Diaspora, Dr. Partha shares the agony of a Bengali far away from his homeland. He confesses, there are quite a few other Bengali immigrants both from Bangladesh...

May 11, 2021
Lovita J. R. Morang
People, Place, Special Feature, Tribute

Tagore in Love: Letters from Shillong, Khublei Shibun

It was in the month of May, Lovita was in Shillong with a sole sojourn to be there, where Tagore lived, 99 years ago (first time in 1919)....

May 10, 2021
Dr. Bina Biswas
Poem, Special Feature, Tribute

Organic Sensibility of Tagore

Bina tells us about the love of Nature in Tagore and compares it with Wordsworth. Nature was organic to both these poets. Here’s an interesting insight, as part of...

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