verse - Different Truths

July 31, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Bihar School of Yoga: Preparing for Tough World, Keeping Positive Attitude and a Selfless Service

The Bihar School of Yoga propagates certain forms of Yoga like Living Yoga propounded by Swami Niranjananda Saraswati. It spells out a certain vision of Sannyasa. Navodita, our Yoga...

July 31, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Poem

Ode to Social Media

A tongue-in-cheek verse on the social media, by Soumya, in Different Truths. Your every ping Makes my heart sing A chat a day Keeps blues away Through emoticon The...

July 26, 2017
Tribhawan Kaul
Fiction

Is Kashmiriat dead? Long live Kashmiriat!

In the backdrop of fundamentalism, gloom, terrorism, there is hope. Arzan Nath and Gul Nisaar, a Kashmiri Pandit and a Muslim, had to suffer. Here’s a story how humanity...

July 15, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Contradictory Shuffle of Planets

The tussle between Karma and destiny decided by planetary positions has been explored and exposed in this poem, by Mamta. It’s a powerful social commentary, in Different Truths. Gaining...

July 11, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Human Rights, Migration & Diaspora, People, Place

Memories of Sangla Hill

This is a question that we all have to answer. Shia, Sunni, Catholic, Protestant, Bengali, Marathi, Brahmin, Jathav, Black, White, Brown, Yellow, do we all mark our territories and...

July 4, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Wellness

Rain, Rain, go Away…

This ‘season of discontent’ seems to be perennial in some people’s lives. They are the kill-joys who squash our enthusiasm with their expectations of gloom and doom. Their blame...

June 22, 2017
Tribhawan Kaul
Poem

The Lament of Nature

A poignant verse about the lament of nature by Tribhawan. Here’s a protest poem, in Different Truths Mother assimilates cloud’s offerings The womb delivers nature’s bounty Hope rejoices...

June 21, 2017
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, Arts, Special Feature

A Nation in Exile

In 1959, the situation inside Tibet led His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama to seek refuge in India and ever since millions of Tibetans are living as refugees in...

May 29, 2017
Chhavi Mehra
Criticism, Gender, Human Rights

Battle of Inclusiveness and Privacy

Seattle-based Chhavi analyses an Op-Ed piece, published in the New York Times, on October 15, 2016. She, thus, unveils the identity issue of a transgender girl, in the weekly...

May 23, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Science & Technology

Telomeres: The Aglets of our Cells

Telomeres are the aglets of human cells. Like the plastic tips at the end of shoelaces, these are sheaths or caps at the end of each strand of the...

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