Abuse Archives - Different Truths

December 10, 2024
Mona Vijaykar
Relationship & Lifestyle

Neglect in the Name of Love: A Growing Problem

Mona criticises the shift in power dynamics, highlighting women as perpetrators of abuse, often targeting in-laws, and calls for awareness and action, exclusively for Different Truths. There has been...

June 10, 2024
Payal Talreja
Gender

Boys will (Not) be Boys: Towards a more Human Society

We talk all the time about what we would teach our daughters, but we equally need to engage in reorienting that which is taught to our sons, not just...

September 18, 2023
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Poem

Madness

A protest poem and a poignant verse by Anoucheka, in Different Truths. Man is mad, So it would seem He births exalts at it Enjoys, uses, and even abuses...

January 21, 2023
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Book Review, Children's Right, Crime

Shyamola Addresses Sexual Assault of Adolescent Male Children

The book, ‘Where the Boys Are…Someone Waits to be Heard,’ by Shyamola Khanna, is a powerful examination of the abuse of male children. Dr Roopali reviews the seminal work –...

September 17, 2022
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Book Review

Karmic Threads Addresses Abuse, Abandonment of Immigrant Women

Dr Roopali reviews Neelam Saxena Chandra’s novel, Karmic Threads, exclusively for Different Truths. Neelam Saxena Chandra’s novel Karmic Threads is dedicated to “all those who are abused or in pain...

September 2, 2022
Different Truths News Service
Advocacy, Children's Right, Cover Story, Crime

409 Crimes Committed Against Children Daily: NCRB 2021 Data Reveals

There is a 16.2 per cent rise in the number of crimes against children compared to last year, according to NCRB data. It works out to 409 crimes against...

May 9, 2021
Michele Baron
Poem, Short Story, Special Feature, Tribute

firefly

An enigmatic short story, by Michele, as a tribute to Tagore, a Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. “I really cannot understand,” her fingers pounded out on the keypad,...

August 29, 2019
Alisha Phillips
Literature, Poem

She

Alisha PhillipsAlisha is an amalgam of an inspirational, courteous and a passionate woman of today. She is not only a gifted writer, who is quite sensitive to events of...

September 24, 2018
Dr. Ranjana Sharan Sinha
Gender, Human Rights, Profile, Special Feature

Sojourner Truth, First Feminist to Assert Black Identity: Intersectionality and Truth

What Sojourner Truth may have been most famous for, not unlike the firebrand anarchist Emma Goldman, was her public speaking. Illiterate throughout her life, she nevertheless had a remarkable...

July 17, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee

The Price of Life

Here’s an evocative real-life account of the survivors during the partition, in 1947. A little lad was celebrating the survival of his mother and him, dancing the Bhangra –...

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