She
A woman-centric poem that tells us about rape, the most heinous crime against her, exclusively for Different Truths. The dazzling sun shone bright on her, She smiled at him...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 –...