childhood - Different Truths

February 24, 2022
Smita Agarwal
Poem

Grandmothers

In this evocative poem Smita compares the two worlds of her grandmothers and her’s. A powerful woman-centric poem. Both my grandmothers Were married off in their teens; Bhuvaneshwari at...

January 18, 2022
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Poem

Childhood in the Times of Corona

Dr. Amrinder parodies Love in the Times of Cholera for children, in the unending Corona scare, exclusively for Different Truths. What is this childhood so full of fear? With...

December 30, 2021
Sutapa Basu
Fiction, Novella, Special Feature

Dangle is a Journey, not Destination, of Facing Secrets and Overcoming Fears

Stunning, svelte, smart Ipshita is a globetrotter. She treks across the world to gather bytes for the travel chats she designs and hosts for TV channels. Despite being a self-assured...

November 30, 2021
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Potpourri, Sports

The Day I Gave Up Football

Soumya walks down the memory lane. He tells us of his younger days, a time when he captained a locality football team. What happened under his maiden captaincy? An...

September 17, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Migration & Diaspora, Relationship & Lifestyle, Travel & Food

For the Ashes of my Father and the Temples of my Gods*

Dr. Roopali tells us about voyages to distant lands. Her father’s family left Dhaka during his childhood. It stayed with him. A highly decorated Air Force officer, her Rakhi...

August 17, 2021
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Our Sand Castles Feeble & Strong

An enigmatic poem, by Sarala, about love, its loss and regain, exclusively for Different Truths. Remember our childhood days When we ran to the seashore To make sandcastles Sometimes...

August 9, 2021
Mani Dixit
Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle

Do Parents Love and Support their Children?

Mani walks down the memory lane and tells us how she and her friend, as little girls, did something that now looks scary. From this week, we are introducing...

July 22, 2021
Madhuri Bhattacharya
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Growing Up in Wilderness: African Stories of Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing was born to British parents, Alfred Taylor and Maud Me Veigh, in 1919. After the First World War, her father migrated to Africa and purchased three thousand...

July 10, 2021
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

Where’re Those Toys & Lost Time?

Ruchira takes us into the days of childhood and toys. The lost days of innocence and simple joys. An exclusive for Different Truths. I have seen more than fifty...

June 4, 2021
Harinder Cheema
Poem

A Borderless World

A boy ridiculed was indeed one with a utopian view, says Harinder, in this poem, exclusively for Different Truths. People called him insane He was teased as a ‘boy...

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