The First Encounter
Tripti, a gynecologist by profession, walks us through the world of a new medico. She shows us the fine line between a doctor-to-be and a young girl scared of ghosts...
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...
Nourishing Night
Here’s a poem, by Arun, in the tradition of the Romantics, wherein the poet’s love for the night, in Different Truths, is invigorating. The myriad conversations I hold with...
Life is no Magic Carpet for Salman in a Faraway Land!
Twenty-eight-year-old Salman is from Bhadohi, in East Uttar Pradesh. He was just 8 years old when he came to Chennai with his father. He misses home. Life is no...
I Do Not Know if this Feeling will ever Go Away
A poignant and intense love poem by Nikita. She asks difficult questions in the soulful verse in Different Truths. I do not know if this feeling will ever go away,The...
The Magical Flying Ambulance: A Redeemer
The cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) by bystanders who witnessed a cardiac arrest can considerably improve survival. Farheen tells us how drones can...
Waiting for Network…
This week’s fantasy fiction by Tapan is an interesting sci-fi, with engrossing twists and turns, exclusively on Different Truths. “Will you call the verses I write my off-springs?” In...
Honour
Here’s an evocative, woman-centric poem by Sudeshna, for Different Truths. How honourable is thy honour?Is it something found in a corner?So let the candle burn in a glowLet the...
Summer Breeze…Musical
Sunil celebrates the summer breeze and looks into the hollowness of material glitz of Europe in travel brochures. Here’s a protest poem, rooted in urban sensibility, in Different Truths. Hear it sing!...
Friends Online
Chennai-based Sumita tells us a story about online friendship, exclusively in Different Truths. September 11 Monday, 09:45 pm Aryan Chelvam hi rams, what’s up man? T. Ramesh hey Aryan!...