Women - Different Truths

July 23, 2016
Sukanya Juno Biswas
Opinion, Politics

Thronging without Thongs: 100 Naked Women Protest against Trump

Trump is about personal divisiveness. He is a vile being who feeds on fear, who follows the policy of divide and rule, and he is succeeding. Along with sunup 100...

July 10, 2016
Uday Biradar
Gender, Science & Technology

Is Maneka Gandhi’s Anti-troll Initiative Defensive?

The Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi launched an anti-trolling campaign for checking online harassment of women recently. There has been quite a bit of reaction from...

July 2, 2016
Rhiti Chatterjee Bose
Conflict Resolution, Cover Story, Crime, Gender

Is our Silence Perpetrating the Rape Culture?

We live in insensitive times. Trying to be smart, we often land up being rude. The Now Gen, uses cuss words at the blink of an eye. The F-word has...

June 5, 2016
Mamta Joshi
Poem

A Cosmetic Trip to Steamy Nirvana

Mamta’s comments on the synthetic beauty business and its promised Nirvana in this poem. In an upmarket high rise A swanky hall With cubicles minuscule Mirrors and lights of every...

June 1, 2016
Duska Vrhovac
Poem

Isidora

Duska pays her tribute to one of 20 th century’s important woman writer, Isidora.* Fifty years, fifty summers, you have lain here, my Isidora, knitting moonlight in Topčider Cemetery,...

May 31, 2016
Duska Vrhovac
Poem

To Find my own Word

Duska tries to find her own word, her own voice, as all poets and writers do in this verse. Countless poets have already told ...

May 30, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Dissent, Environment, Human Rights, Politics

PMS Flays Govt., Protest Atrocities against Women

Women flayed the government for unleashing atrocities on them, in nearby Kaushambi district, in the name of cleaning Ganga. In five villages goons and police attack their dignity when they go...

May 28, 2016
Saheli Mitra
Poem

Shades of Eve

An enigmatic poem about a girl, and later a woman, by the cool banks, pebbles and tears by Blue Eve. ‘By your cool banks, I sat down at last....

May 10, 2016
Ritamvara Bhattacharya
Poem

Vaginas don’t have Homes/Dream of Apples

Two sisters, Dishani Roy and Ritamvara Bhattacharya, compose poems in sync. Here’s a jugalbandi of two intense poets and their poetry of protest. A Different Truths exclusive. Vaginas don’t have...

April 30, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Human Rights, Short Story

The Actress

Madhumita pens a story, based on a real life incident. Babies are rented out, daily, to beggars. Read what happens to one such baby. Here’s a heart-wrenching story on May Day....

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