• December 4, 2016
  • Olaitan Maryam Mojisola

Black

Here’s a protest poem by Olaitan with epic sensibility for Different Truths. It’s intense and passionate. Her pain is palpable and it moves from the individual to the cosmic. The...

…And One Day-I

The protagonist, Nandini, was orphaned at the age of five, when she lost both her parents in an accident in the Western Ghats, in India. She was being brought up...
  • July 10, 2016
  • Deeya Bhattacharya

Summer of Pain

An evocative prose poem by Deeya that talk of seasons, a seaside resort and more.     Summer is at the helm of affairs, glistening beads of sweat wrap...
  • June 23, 2016
  • Lopamudra Banerjee

The Scab

An intense love poem by Lopamudra. Crush me like old dust between your palms, Let me burn in sulphur flames amid those burning grains. I want to die, the...
  • June 21, 2016
  • Neelam Saxena Chandra

Shedding Skins

A tongue-in- cheek poem of hope by Neelam. Snakes, Salamanders and Souls Shed their skin To rejuvenate themselves And let go the memories Which haunt them Making them floppy...