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  • July 10, 2021
  • Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
  • Poem

How to Teach a Frightened Boy?

An intense and powerful poem, by Dr. Roopali, about Bittoo’s battered mother and women wronged down the ages. An exclusive for Different Truths. How to teach that frightened boy ...
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  • July 9, 2021
  • Sarala Balachandran
  • Poem

Why Stigmatise Mental Disorders?

Sarala questions why mental disorders are stigmatised in India, in this prose poem on social awareness, exclusively for Different Truths. In today’s world, the second killer next to heart...
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  • July 6, 2021
  • Amita Sanghavi
  • Poem

Remnants

An evocative poem about suffering, by Amita, exclusively for Different Truths. The remnants of my silence Hung on the words Heart-felt, held, weighed On my tongue heavy – Unuttered....
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  • July 5, 2021
  • Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-Roy
  • Poem

Spring: Season of Love

Inspired by two Bengali songs, Prof. Sonjoy transcreates the romance of Spring, exclusively for Different Truths. To the lilt of the flute To the beat of the Mridanga Comes the...
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‘I Want to Live, Ma…’

Forsaken and forlorn, Amit contemplates suicide. Dr. Priyamita weaves a saga of his life’s journey, exclusively for Different Truths. The dogs outside the emergency gate barked. Care-worn patients filled...
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  • July 3, 2021
  • Kamrun Nahar
  • Poem

The Bustle of the Wild Air

An evocative poem, by Kamrun, about wild air, wandering traveller and more, exclusively for Different Truths. In a silent spring with a misty wild air I can listen to...
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Animated Joys

An intense woman-centric poem, by Nibedita, wherein she searches her identity, exclusively for Different Truths. They ask me, what do I do the entire day? Their eyes questioning my...
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