2016 - Page 64 of 83 - Different Truths

May 5, 2016
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Shuffling Memories

In this poignant poem, Mamta delves into her ‘sepia memories’. As dusk settles Memories begin to scrape my mind Like negatives of snapshots Sometimes sharp Sometimes fuzzy and undefined...

May 5, 2016
Nirmal Kumar Paudel
Subaltern & Dalits

Bonded Labourers of Sarai walk tall, Wait for Emancipation

Nirmal documents the life in Sarai Village, in Varanasi district, which is now free of bonded labourers, due to the pro-active measures of PVCHR. During his recent visit, he found that...

May 4, 2016
Cholena Nashan
Health

I Just Want to Breathe Love Through Your Lungs…

In a candid account, Cholena talks of her struggles with asthma. She knew the pain and anguish of it, as she saw her mother and many others wheeze. She prayed...

May 3, 2016
Cholena Nashan
Food, Photo Feature

Rice and Shine

Food is about nostalgia. It brings with it laughter and joy. Cholena takes us through the delights of rice-based delicacies that brings back the love and care of her mother....

May 3, 2016
Dr. Archana Kaushik
Subaltern & Dalits

Labour Bondage: An Ignored Reality of India, 50Mn. People Trapped in Slavery

Archana takes a hard look at the grim world of bonded labourers. Walk Free Foundation (2013) ranks India to be number one country with the largest number of bonded labourers....

May 2, 2016
Anumita Roy
Health

Spare my Child, Take my Breath Away…

On World Asthma Day, Anumita shares the trial and tribulations that she faced as a young mother of an asthmatic infant. Here’s a candid account of one mother, but it’s...

May 2, 2016
Dr. Barnali Bhattacharya
Health

Asthma is on the rise globally because of urbanisation, industrialisation, environmental pollution and global warming. Globally there are about 150 million asthmatics, of which 50% are children. In India...

May 1, 2016
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Cover Story, Dissent, Subaltern & Dalits

Towards Dawn: Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Brick Kilns

Lenin takes us through the sordid and macabre accounts of contemporary slavery in brick kilns, based on actual accounts of the hapless victims. Driven by hunger and starvation, many children die...

May 1, 2016
Different Truths
Announcement

Break Silence, Give Voice to Bonded Labourers & Human Right Violations

We, at Different Truths, are taking up the cause of millions of people in India and world over. These hapless people bear untold miseries in silence. Caught in debt traps,...

May 1, 2016
The Significant League
Poem

Anthology on Bonded Labour

The Significant League (TSL) and Different Truths (DT) together offer an Anthology on Bonded Labour, 60 poems, one be each poet, full of pathos and pain. It’s our joint salutation...

subscribe