Beauty - Different Truths

January 17, 2018
Mamta Joshi
Poem

A Scaffolding of Love

Here’s an intense and powerful women-centric poem by Mamta that celebrates her love despite countless sufferings, for Different Truths. Throbbing with exhaustion and pain Cramped muscles ache for rest...

January 7, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Films, History & Culture, Opinion

Padmini in the Ocean of Controversies

Padmini’s narrative has found itself being retold in several ways over several centuries, in the form of poems, stories, dance dramas, comic books, plays, and films. Each retelling is...

January 6, 2018
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Poem

In Love with a Doctor

An intense love poem by Amrinder. A patient’s crush for the doctor is celebrated here, for Different Truths. He took my head in both his hands And looked deep...

January 4, 2018
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: The Magical Flute – LVI

Nilanjana recounts the tale of Krishna’s magical flute from the Bhagavatam, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Parikshit asked, “If bhakti (devotion) is the road to moksha (liberation), then Krishna’s contemporaries...

December 31, 2017
Payal Talreja
Cover Story, Dissent, Films, Gender, Mass Media, Sports

Celebrating Women: The Year That Was!

Firebrand feminist, Payal, our columnist, says that from within the murk and gloom of crime against women, there were many who rose from the ashes like the mythical Phoenix....

December 31, 2017
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career, Travel & Food

Different Truths Honed the Writer in me in 2017

Preeyan, an HR professional, began writing a column for this webzine, in 2017. Here he revisits his journey as a writer, in the year gone by, in the Special...

December 30, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Films

Top 10 Outstanding Indian Short Films of 2017

With the growing influence of the digital media, expanding wingspan of the Internet and very less time at the hands of the modern film viewer, short films are increasingly attracting...

December 25, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Health, Relationship & Lifestyle

Three Ways to Tutor Your Brain to Cease Disquietude

Worrying in its severe form leads to depression as zeroing into events that we cannot actually choose to take action to help prepare for whatever one is overly thinking...

December 25, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Banned Girl

An intense ballad about the perversity of the society for a woman, her sexuality, and salvation, by Kabir, in Different Truths. One night, two souls united Breaking many customs...

December 17, 2017
Sumita Dutta
Book Extract, Fiction

The Heart of Donna Rai: Police

Here’s the third and final part of the three-part book extract from the forthcoming novel, The Heart of Donna Rai by Sumita, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different...

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