Mamta Joshi - Different Truths

Mamta Joshi

Mamta Joshi did her post graduation in History from University of Allahabad. She writes short stories, reflective essays, prose pieces on everyday life in national dailies and international e-magazines. She writes with equal ease in Hindi. For over two decades, as a teacher of English in college section at SMC, Allahabad, she has been interacting with young minds, understanding their pulse and in turn being savvy on technology, fitness, fashion, humour and rumour too.

March 3, 2022
Mamta Joshi
Poem

A City’s Penance

Here’s a social commentary in verse by Mamta. An undying treeOn the banks of rivers threeTwo polluted, one mythicalA C'ezanne brown medieval fortMysterious shadowsetched under its arches and columnsSilently...

January 26, 2022
Mamta Joshi
Book Review

Smita Declares Independence Against Internalised Misogyny of Women

Mamta reviews, ‘Speak, Woman!’, a collection of 38 pro-women poems, by Smita Agarwal, exclusively for Different Truths. ‘Speak, Woman!’ by Smita Agarwal, is a collection of 38 uncompromisingly pro-women...

October 14, 2020
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Hope Peddlers in Isolation

A poem about the hope peddlers during pandemic, by Mamta, exclusively for Different Truths. Did you read my story?Might make you feel less lonely, less apart, less emptySimply because...

September 25, 2018
Mamta Joshi
Cinema, Obituary, Tribute

A Visionary Auteur Goes Gently Into The Good Night

“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” —Edmund Hillary Armed with a pedigreed background in film world and a distinct persona of her...

August 3, 2018
Mamta Joshi
Poem

It Does Not Rain Hopes Anywhere

An evocative poem that talks about rain, city life and the ills of urbanisation, by Mamta, exclusively for Different Truths. Every day my son anxiously checks The weather reports...

June 22, 2018
Mamta Joshi
Environment

The Wood Wide Web: Why we need a Mowgli in us!

Mowgli’s woody world is full of deep love for the jungle and animals of all shapes and sizes, within it. Rudyard Kipling’s story is laced with moral lessons to...

May 22, 2018
Mamta Joshi
Cinema, Music

Music and the Cusp between Day and Night: Songs on Dusk from the Fifties to the Seventies

Music and poetry have been beautifully wedded in the songs of dusk in Hindi film songs where words become perfect pegs to showcase music aesthetically. The collapse of the...

January 17, 2018
Mamta Joshi
Poem

A Scaffolding of Love

Here’s an intense and powerful women-centric poem by Mamta that celebrates her love despite countless sufferings, for Different Truths. Throbbing with exhaustion and pain Cramped muscles ache for rest...

December 29, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Potpourri

Ring in the New but do Not Ring out the Old

The new coexists with the old – that’s what ancient civilisations teach us. Here’s Mamta’s take on the year has gone by and the New Year coming, as Special Feature, exclusively...

December 11, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Gender, Parenting

The Womb Mates

When the kids become parents themselves then only they discover their parents’ awesomeness. The mother-daughter bond strengthens when the daughter becomes a radiant expectant mother. She trusts her mother implicitly...

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