A Spurious Existence
Two women in denial. One wanted a daughter from her second husband after 11 pregnancies – two deaths and six abortions. Belonging to Tajikistan, she donned a hijab but...
Book Extract: For the Love of a Man
The book For the Love of a Man is a heavily fictionalized account of her life that lays bare taboo subjects like female sexuality, exposing what right-thinking people would carry...
A Class Apart
Malvika ThakurMalvika Thakur is an Insurance underwriter by profession, a lawyer by education and a dancer at heart. She is an avid reader with keen interest in Nature, human...
The City of Dreams
With a perfect image of small town girl carrying a suitcase full of memories and a diary full of dreams and longings, Varisha took her first step into the...
The Orbit
An engrossing fiction about changing values and relationships, by Sandeep, exclusively for Different Truths. “Aryan, beta hurry up or we will miss the beginning of the movie.” “I am...
The Anatomy of Fear
Atrayee BhattacharyaAtrayee Bhattacharya is an educator and works for an MNC’s CSR wing. In the bustle under the sun, she is a devoted educator, a loving wife, a caring...
Plight of the Peacock
Here’s a modern fable about an old peacock and a three-legged dog – other than a Brahma bull and a king cobra. Mary beautifully explores how the peacock and...
The Pious Infidel
Intolerance and hatred have existed with its opposite in the public spheres. Here’s Anika’s historical short fiction, in the regular column, exclusively in Different Truths. He was Nizam to us....
In the Land of the Dragons: Prologue
Mitali’s eight years stay in China made her write a fiction, published in 2014. A few decades ago, it was a country shrouded in mysteries. Much has changed in...
A Child who Lives in a Glass Bottle – I
Dr. Tzemin Ition TsaiDr. Tzemin Ition Tsai (蔡澤民博士) is from Taiwan, Republic of China. He is a professor at Asia University (Taiwan), a scholar with a wide range of...