Sorrow - Different Truths

August 11, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Poem

Philomela: Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow

A women-centric protest poem, by Dr. Roopali, exclusively for Different Truths. If you cut off a woman’s tongue like they did the other day in that dusty dirty town...

December 30, 2019
Sarika Sarkar Das
Obituary, Tribute

Looking Back: 2019 Was a Year of Losses

July 12, 2018
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Kamsa and Krishna – LXXX

Nilanjana recounts the well-known tale of how Krishna crushed the life out of Kamsa, from the Bhagavatam, in the weekly column. A Different Truths exclusive. Sukha took a pause...

July 10, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Sports

Matching up to England and Bowling out the Raj

With the current India-England series on, Soumya recounts the life and times of his grandfather, a civil servant of the Raj, and his glee when India defeated England in...

June 26, 2018
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Poem

Are we not all Privileged and Unprivileged in Some Way?

Ritambhara looks at the emptiness and void in the lives of the rich and pits it against the have-nots, in this verse, exclusively for Different Truths. The homeless on...

June 4, 2018
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Music of Love

A love poem, by Deeya, exclusively for Different Truths. Rivers run back stifled weeds mock the time the sorrow of life the soreness-brown humbug that fade away with time never...

May 24, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
People, Place

Religious Fervor and Symbolism of Weddings in Andhra Pradesh

Ruchira tells us about weddings in Andhra Pradesh, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Nearly four years ago, along with my family, I had flown down to...

May 23, 2018
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand
Criticism, Poem

A Remarkable Horizontal Vastness and a Rare Vertical Depth in the Poetry of Basudeb Chakraborti – IV

Basudeb Chakraborti’s poetry has a remarkable horizontal vastness and a rare vertical depth. His poetry concerns itself with all the essential aspects of life and one feels the imprint...

May 22, 2018
Mamta Joshi
Cinema, Music

Music and the Cusp between Day and Night: Songs on Dusk from the Fifties to the Seventies

Music and poetry have been beautifully wedded in the songs of dusk in Hindi film songs where words become perfect pegs to showcase music aesthetically. The collapse of the...

May 15, 2018
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Cry of Little Asifa…

An evocative protest poem by Sarala, exclusively for Different Truths Paint me and my sorrow In black and grey In your hearts I live In the darkness, I cry ...

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