Treadmill
Here’s a sensitive poem by Bruce that depicts a slice of life, in Different Truths. The poet presents a slice of life, where a father watches a daughter with pride, with...
My Favorite Christmas Tree
Here’s an excerpt story from the New York-based Joseph Ferguson’s latest short fiction collection, Shillelagh Law. It’s a must read. The story originally appeared in Ellipsis: An Anthology of Humorous Short...
Dalit Writings are Revolt Literature: A Research Outline of Understanding the Making of the Activist Discourse
A good number of Dalits intuitively believe that they are born to do the perennial drudgery and thralldom to upper-class Hindus. Their belief has become almost and nearly instinctive...
A Different Saraswati
Like many other victims of rape and molestation, Shobha was also denied of an identity, mistreated and misunderstood by her neighbours and her relatives. As a journalist, this scribe was given...
Hindu World View of RK Narayan: Progress of Jagan from Egotism to Mysticism
The acceptance of one homogenised Indian culture, i.e., Hinduism, in general, and Brahminical cult, in particular, is the basic assumption of this article, which aims at examining the process of transformation...
She Never Saw Him Again
An evocative love poem of loss and remembrances, by Monika, for Different Truths. She never saw him again Their love was very brief They couldn’t be together And this...
Rules of Desires rooted in the Earthly Mantle of Life
Knowledge of the history and culture of the backdrops of Dipika Mukherjee’s stories are remarkable. The plots are based across urban Kuala Lumpur to cosmopolitan Shanghai, small towns of India, and...
French Author Charles Dantzig: European Nations are Conservative, not Progressive!
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”...
After the Taste of Juicy Zobo-Blood
An anti-war protest poem by Martins, for Different Truths. After fuddled in thought around 12am, in the serene night I depleted my thought which was flitting through my mind...
Annual Moksha on Sand Banks
Mamta beautifully depicts the supermarket of religion that springs up, in Allahabad, every year, where religion is commerce. Here Moksha (salvation) is an annual dose. The imagery and metaphors are picturesque...