Though Love Hurts
A poignant love poem, by Dr Ashok, exclusively for Different Truths. Love hurts And departs. Yet in heart In gyrates And creates The pain of a new sort That...
I Promise a Sonnet to the Sea
A poignant poem celebrating love and nature, tinged with sadness, by Dr Nandini, exclusively for Different Truths. Often I visit you as a tramp and come back like an...
What was the Mystery of the Gleaming Metal?
Soumya tells us about Lata and how she lost her gold jewellery. Did she get it back? Here’s an exciting account based on a news report— an exclusive for...
Sunlight on Fragments
Here is an evocative poem about inner turmoil finding outward expression by Ketaki, exclusively for Different Truths. Sometimes there is intensely hurting isolation. Vulnerable and feral, destroying and agonising....
Raja: The Colourful Festival of Odisha
Sudipta tells us about Raja, the menstruation festival of Odisha, a fertility rite. An exclusive for Different Truths. Raja is the most unique and unconventional festival of Odisha. The...
Prism Journey
Jasnoor celebrates the beauty of Nature, identifying with it, in this poem, exclusively for Different Truths. Grey roads meeting grey clouds, green trees waving at coloured souls, a serene...
Memory & Identity: The Poet as a Storyteller
Dr. Sutanuka reviews Santosh Bakaya’s book of poems, Runcible Spoons and Peagreen Boats: My Father’s Last Letter to Me and Other Poems. An exclusive for Different Truths. As one remembers one...
Evening Shades
An evocative poem about the passage of time, the evening of one’s life, by Dr. Roopali, exclusively for Different Truths. Slowly wearily almost without a whisper Evening came upon...
Allahabad Fort: From the Grandeur of Akbar to the Tyranny of Raj
Allahabad Fort was built by Emperor Akbar due to military compulsions. After Akbar, the fort was under several rulers. During the British regime, General Kyd was its commandant. The Britishers had...
