city Archives - Different Truths

June 10, 2026
Shirin Shabana Khan
Crime, Gender, Human Rights

Reality and Intervention of Witch Hunting: A Crime against Human Dignity

The modus operandi is to disgrace and ostracise the victim. Shirin Shabana highlights the witch hunting cases in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere, suggesting the way out, in the weekly column, exclusively...

November 27, 2024
Amita Sanghavi
Poem

Mumbai: A City’s Love Affair with Hustle and Hope

Amita’s evocative poem welcome us to Mumbai, where dreams are forged in the heart of the city’s relentless energy. An exclusive for Different Truths. The street's abuzzthe taporis hum...

April 11, 2024
Monika Ajay Kaul
Poem

A City’s Machine Heart: Is Technology Taking Over?

Monika’s poem depicts a city transformed into a surreal landscape dominated by technology, where humans crave connection but become increasingly isolated, exclusively for Different Truths. The city, a phantasmagoria...

April 5, 2024
Tirthankar Das Purkayastha
Poem

A Sleeping City: Love Letter to Tranquillity

Dr Tirthankar’s poem, exclusively for Different Truths, craves tranquillity, a hushed city, and chosen solitude, shunning restless silence. Let the dews wet the morning trail, Petals drop on the...

December 7, 2023
Arti Chopra
Poem

The City Never Sleeps

Arti’s poem deals with the city that never sleeps, a metropolis filled with dreams, aspirations, and life’s constant rhythm, exclusively for Different Truths. Tall, concrete, shining monstrosities thrusting...

October 4, 2022
Mallika Bhaumik
Fairs & Festivals, Religion

A Simple Durga Puja Far from the Maddening Crowd

Far from the madding crowd and the razzmatazz of Kolkata, where Durga Puja, or any other puja, is more about pomp and show, the reporter Mallika’s sister visited Gorjangal, on...

March 12, 2022
Different Truths Poets
Poem, Special Feature

An Anthology of Poems Celebrating Womanhood

We are pleased to present An Anthology of Poems Celebrating Womanhood, as part of the International Women’s Day (IWD) Theme that we, in Different Truths are featuring, spread over three days,...

March 3, 2022
Mamta Joshi
Poem

A City’s Penance

Here’s a social commentary in verse by Mamta. An undying treeOn the banks of rivers threeTwo polluted, one mythicalA C'ezanne brown medieval fortMysterious shadowsetched under its arches and columnsSilently...

February 17, 2022
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Lifestyle, People, Place

Rickshaws: Lifeline of Indian Towns, Cities

Ruchira traces the invention of rickshaws and tells us about the rickshaw pullers’ lives. She also points out the outcry against it, worldwide. An exclusive for Different Truths. The...

February 11, 2022
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
People, Place, Travel & Food

The Delhi That I Know

Dr. Roopali takes us on a tour of Delhi that she had known as a child to the megapolis that grew over time. A colour and mood story, exclusively...