Poetry

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...

May 24, 2023
Dr. Amit Shankar Saha
Cover Story, Literary Festival

K3 Chapter Launched Amongst Discussions, Poetry, and Songs

Kavya Kumbh Kolkata (K3), the first of the many chapters, was launched in Kolkata amongst camaraderie, discussions, poetry, and songs, at the ICCR Library, on Saturday, May 20 —...

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...

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