Dear Woman, Let’s Rewrite Our Stories
Sudipta rues that a woman is judged by the society and calls upon the fair sex to rise and rewrite their stories. A new weekly column, beginning this Monday,...
…And Two Women Suffered
She was a slim, tall, elegant woman, too pretty to be a cook in our house, but as she was not very young, my mother kept her immediately. She...
The Longest Celebration
Parvathy celebrates the various stages of womanhood, in this verse. An exclusive for Different Truths. The celebration of womanhood, and the longest celebration it is Right from birth to...
African Women Stand Tall against Female Genital Mutilation
Butchering girls’ private parts, cutting out healthy flesh in the name of religious ritual is barbaric. Whenever a girl or a woman gets cut, she becomes exposed to numeric...
Still I Rise: IWD 2018, Anthology of Poems
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2018, Different Truths Poets present an anthology of poems, celebrating the woman, in paroxysms of emotions, enigmatic and multilayered, like...
The Saga of Indian Reel Women down the Ages: Lights! Camera! Action!
Mamta tells us about the women directors of Bollywood, who have followed the footprints of the pioneers, who broke the glass ceiling, as early as 1920’s, as part of the Special...
African Women and Colonisation
Many of the approaches used to analyse African colonial politics, economies, societies, and cultures were often gender-blind and tended to ignore women’s lives, experiences, contributions, voices, perceptions, representations, and struggles....
Is Empowerment of Women a Distant Dream?
Women roughly constitute half the population but in every aspect women still remain grossly under-represented. Certainly, the women in the largest democracy of the world are ranked much below top hundred...
Three Glasses of Wine
A plush villa, a luxurious life and hidden beneath it a life that’s futile. Harshali weaves an intense story of a woman who is trapped in her pain. But...
Controversy between Woman and Love
An evocative poem, by Kamrun, with contestation between a woman and love. An exclusive for Different Truths. Who are you? I am love Are you that one? Who doesn’t...