Baby - Different Truths

March 8, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

The Bitch, the Witch or That Woman on a Shaky Pedestal?

Millions of women are ostracised for what is normal, and in fact, a magical and powerful bodily function that enables the miracle of life. It is our fear of...

March 8, 2024
Abha Iyengar
Gender, Poem, Special Feature

We Mean Business, Baby

Here’s a protest poem by Abha, on the occasion of International Women’s Day (IWD), exclusively in Different Truths. They sayYou have come a long way, baby.I say I have...

May 5, 2023
Anumita Roy
Short Story

The Beginning of an End

Anumita brings out the agonising pain of a mother contesting her child’s custody in a courtroom, exclusively for Different Truths. “Are you ready, June? – the question was just...

December 5, 2022
Shernaz Wadia
Gender, Human Rights

Why is it a Curse to be a Girl-child?

Shernaz fictionalises a real-life account where the daughter, a girl-child, in dire need of kidney transplant was left uncared for. No medical expenses were provisioned for her since she...

December 27, 2021
Roger Sandeep Virk
Fiction, Special Feature

The Orbit

An engrossing fiction about changing values and relationships, by Sandeep, exclusively for Different Truths. “Aryan, beta hurry up or we will miss the beginning of the movie.” “I am...

November 18, 2019
Basudeb Chakraborti
Poem

The Scarlet Letter

September 13, 2018
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Lifestyle, Parenting

Terrible Twins, Their Big Brother, and a Doting Grandmother

Dr. Amrinder takes a break for her busy schedule to spend a day with her grandchildren, big brother, Jashn, and twin little sisters, Anya and Alia. With three grandchildren,...

May 22, 2018
Maj Gen Raj Singh Mehta
Defence, Gender, People

Capt. Devika: An Officer and a Lady, who Personified Courage

Maj. Gen. Raj recounts the true story of a brave lady doctor, Capt. Devika Gupta, and how she risked her life and limbs to save a wounded soldier. An...

May 15, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Deve Gowda Becomes the Good Father, but another Baby Goes Out With the Bath Water

Siddaramaiah has lost more than one arm. BS Yeddyurappa lost his cup of joy because there are these things called ‘slip’ and ‘lip’. Amit Shah lost his confidence. Rahul...

April 27, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema

Casting Couch as Livelihood Provider: Bollywood Makes Song and Drama of Rape Culture

The casting couch is just another piece of furniture that pretty girls aspiring to become Bollywood starlets should get familiar with in the prone position. The casting couch phobia...

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