River - Different Truths

November 8, 2016
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Crime, Education & Career, Gender, Place

No Girls are Safe in the Badlands of India!

Bhaskar talks of the regularity of girls’ assaults, repetitively, in our society that shows that something is terribly wrong in the upbringing of the boys, be it inside their houses,...

July 23, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

Prinsep Ghat

Lopamudra presents a series of prose-poems or short vignettes in blank verse based on certain long-standing images of Kolkata, and the US. Here’s the second one of the series, ‘Prinsep Ghat’, exclusively for...

June 6, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Dissent, Economy, Environment, Politics

Govt. Fudging Figures to Misdirect People on Environment Protection

The Indian government has contributed to this fudging of facts to fool the people by reducing definition of forest cover to only 10 per cent tree cover over each...

June 3, 2016
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Wounds of Silence

A protest poem by Deeya against atrocities. Desires hold me prisoners scaling walls of atrocities tendrils of silence cloaks me in this vivacious sun I stand upon the bend...

June 2, 2016
Ipsita Ganguli
Poem

Sisterhood Beyond Borders-I

Ipsita and Urooj found each other through poetry and discovered a deep bond, an inexplicable affinity and affection resulting in a beautiful bond beyond borders. They came together in sisterhood, melting geographical...

May 30, 2016
Duska Vrhovac
Poem

There are People

Duska’s intense and evocative poem of many people around us. There are people you don’t have to talk to understand them. You don’t have to see them regularly send...

March 15, 2016
Sarika Sarkar Das
Potpourri

My Friend River Longai

A river is a friend. She nurtures and punishes. Here is a lesser known river, Longai, flowing in the northeastern part India and Bangladesh. Sarika talks of her deep connection...