Cigarette - Different Truths

July 19, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

Sexism and Literature

Payal re-examines classics and popular comics to explore how sexist their content is, exclusively in Different Truths. Recently, I decided to recycle through all the old books that I...

May 9, 2025
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

The Revenge of Tashi

A bold and intense prose poem by Deeya, in Different Truths. Tashi breathes the mud of magic. The cold windy day translucently blows and his bones rattle against a tepid...

April 16, 2024
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Missing on a Weekend

A bold prose-poem of Deeya, in Different Truths, set in the urban settings and sensibilities of the 21st century. Weekends are subterfuges in love, desire, pain. They are the extra...

March 11, 2022
Different Truths Poets
Gender, Poem, Special Feature

Still I Rise: IWD 2018, Anthology of Poems

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2018, Different Truths Poets present an anthology of poems, celebrating the woman, in paroxysms of emotions, enigmatic and multilayered, like...

March 10, 2022
Pyusha Chatterjee Singh
Films, Gender, Special Feature

Liberated Leading Ladies of the Celluloid

Pyusha takes a look at some of the unconventional female characters and women-centric films Bollywood has produced in the recent years. She critiques such films with thumbnail reviews, as...

March 7, 2022
Harshali Singh
Gender, Short Story, Special Feature

Three Glasses of Wine

A plush villa, a luxurious life and hidden beneath it a life that’s futile. Harshali weaves an intense story of a woman who is trapped in her pain. But...

April 24, 2018
Michele Baron
Short Story, Special Feature, Special Needs

the studio

A poignant story by Michele, concerning neurodiversity, for the Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. “When I am not prepping or playing a concert, or teaching, I paint,” he...

March 20, 2018
IPA Service
Advocacy, Health

Cough Campaign to Smoke out TB: 4.32 Lakh Indians Died in 2016 Due to Killer Disease

Earlier this month was held the ‘End-TB Summit’ in New Delhi and prime minister Narendra Modi re-launched the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) “cough”, a national mass...

March 15, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Party-Paradise Tamil Nadu has Voters Spoiled for Choice

TTV has beaten the rest to it and there is nothing the rest can do about it. Actor Rajinikanth, who was feeding sadhus in Rishikesh when TTV was launching...

January 14, 2018
Maj Gen Raj Singh Mehta
Defence, People, Tribute

Braveheart Captain M.N. Mulla Chose the Dignity of Death over Dishonour

Braveheart Capt. Mahendra Nath Mulla MVC wilfully chose never to forsake his men; leave them behind when a torpedo fired from the Daphne-class Pakistani submarine PNS Hangor struck his...

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