direction Archives - Different Truths

June 24, 2024
Tapati Sinha
Cover Story, Health, History & Culture, Opinion

The Game of Life and Death…

The concept of ‘good death’ (euthanasia) existed in the ancient world. Medical assistance was not needed when the Homeric warrior died as a hero and was expected to accept...

May 30, 2024
Ayub Khawar
Poem

Another Verse between Me and My Poem

Amidst harsh cruelty and metaphors of violence, the poet, and his poem are split apart, in this verse by Ayub, exclusively for Different Truths. In the yellow muddled morn,Thinking...

May 5, 2023
Anumita Roy
Short Story

The Beginning of an End

Anumita brings out the agonising pain of a mother contesting her child’s custody in a courtroom, exclusively for Different Truths. “Are you ready, June? – the question was just...

April 20, 2023
Harsh Vardhan 'Samrat'
Poem

Who will Save Sati?

Here’s a poem based on a true story on how Harsh saved a woman from being burnt alive in the name of a superstitious ritual named ‘Sati Pratha’ that...

January 5, 2023
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Cinema, Interview, Music

Shuvayu: Music is my Lifeline, my Survival

Shuvayu, in a candid interview with Ruchira, discusses his music and films and outlines his outlook on life – an exclusive for Different Truths. Kolkata-based Shuvayu Bhattacharjee has traversed...

September 30, 2022
Sumita Dutta
Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

Durga Puja: A Five-day Extravaganza of Food, Feast, Fun, and Frolic

Eyes closed, each of us disappears into our own consciousness where we perhaps see a beloved departed parent or remember a past when they stood above us uttering these...

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,...

December 23, 2021
Mary Kaye Huber
Fiction, Special Feature

Plight of the Peacock

Here’s a modern fable about an old peacock and a three-legged dog – other than a Brahma bull and a king cobra. Mary beautifully explores how the peacock and...

July 29, 2021
Gauri Dixit
Book Review, Special Feature

The Inspiring Story of the African American, George Washington Carver

Veena Gavankar came across the English biography, George Washington Carver, an African American agriculturist, botanist, inventor and environmentalist, written by Shirley Graham and George Lipscomb. She was fascinated with...

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...

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