voiceless - Different Truths

March 8, 2022
Michele Baron
Gender, Special Feature

chains, choices, chances, change … considering Women’s Day

A newborn does not care about the mother’s credentials, caste, class, culture, creed or colour — only that the mother’s arms are strong, her hands supportive and gentle, that there is...

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...

July 16, 2018
Amit Singh
Advocacy, Cover Story, Subaltern & Dalits

Human Rights Justice: Methods of Testimonial Therapy to Generate Human Rights Movement – II

In the second and final part of the research article, Amit, our Editor-at-Large (Europe) examines the methods of Testimonial Therapy (TT) to generate the human rights movement. He tells...

July 11, 2018
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Dissent, Human Rights

The Hunger of Oleg Sentsov

On the 15th of May 2018, one month before Russia celebrated the opening of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Oleg Sentsov began an indefinite hunger strike, which continues today...

July 9, 2018
Amit Singh
Advocacy, Cover Story, Dalits

Human Rights Justice: Who are the Torture Victims? – I

Amit, our Editor-at-Large (Europe) analyses role of an India based Non-Governmental Organisation working for the torture victims of marginalised groups (such as Dalits, Muslims) using novel methods of testimonial...

March 5, 2018
Arindam Roy
Curtain Raiser, Edit

Still I Rise: Celebrating Womanhood on IWD 2018

Our Editor-in-Chief, Arindam, tells about this year’s theme of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2018. He introduces three erudite editors and includes their editorials in this editorial. His thank...

October 8, 2017
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Human Rights, International Relations, Politics

A Critical Analysis of Human Rights with Focus on Foundational Weakness and Dual Nature of Human Rights

Our Editor-at-Large (Europe), Amit, raises questions that are of immediate relevance to international politics, as human rights are increasingly ‘mainstreamed’ into the policy framework of states. He critically reflects on...

May 9, 2017
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

Did You Know Me?

A heart-wrenching poem of lost love, of a marriage failing after 22 years. The agony of separation has been poignantly portrayed by Elsy in this verse, for Different Truths. That...

November 8, 2016
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, Politics

Flames of Truth

People who have been wronged, rendered homeless and voiceless are left with little choice but to set themselves afire, alive. It’s most shocking, terribly grotesque. Till date there are 153 reported...

July 28, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Tribute

Mahasweta Devi, the Voice of the Voiceless, Passes Away in Kolkata

A firebrand writer, who had the spunk and the courage to call a spade a spade, passed away in Kolkata, on Thursday, at 90. Madhumita pays a befitting tribute...

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