Dusk
Bhawini talks of nature and the ebb of life in this poignant sad poem. Cracked near the dusty mountains,As the weary sun does bleedMy heart sobs out,Its music much...
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,...
Music and the Cusp between Day and Night: Songs on Dusk from the Fifties to the Seventies
Music and poetry have been beautifully wedded in the songs of dusk in Hindi film songs where words become perfect pegs to showcase music aesthetically. The collapse of the...
What it is to be a Wife of a Geologist!
Here’s a tongue-in-cheek account by Dr. Preeti about what it’s to be a geologist’s wife. A humourous account of a rocky relationship, exclusively for Different Truths. “Civilisation exists by...
Close Encounters of the Wild Kind –1
Fancy-free and footloose, three friends decide on an adventurous trip. They meet an Australian bicyclist and decide to visit a wildlife resort, meeting villagers and a sadhu. Here’s the...
Hope
Aishwarya talks of hope in times of despair in this verse, in Different Truths. anarchic is the world – in which we live in today where money has become...
Devi in Dilemma
Here’s a tongue-in-cheek account of the plight of Goddess Durga, on Earth, her parents’ abode, in verse, by Tapati, in Different Truths. Here arrives autumn with sky, a deep...