Emptiness Archives - Page 2 of 2

January 14, 2020
Neelam Saxena Chandra
Poem

The Void

Neelam Saxena ChandraNeelam Saxena, author of 84 books, holds three Limca Book of Records titles. She has received prestigious honours, including the Sohanlal Dwivedi Puraskar from the Maharashtra State...

June 26, 2018
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Poem

Are we not all Privileged and Unprivileged in Some Way?

Ritambhara looks at the emptiness and void in the lives of the rich and pits it against the have-nots, in this verse, exclusively for Different Truths. The homeless on...

December 23, 2017
Devraj Singh Kalsi
Book Extract, Fiction

Grief

Bibi Amrit, fondly called Biji, doubled her thunderous output on realising that she had an opportunity to overpower Nasib, to show the train of mourners that a mother’s grief...

April 11, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Cover Story, History & Culture, Travel & Food

A Tour into the Fearsome, Doomed World of the Freemantle Prison

The Freemantle Prison is the only World Heritage listed building in Western Australia. Built in the 1850’s by the prisoners themselves, it was used as a barracks for convicts...

April 4, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Potpourri, Relationship & Lifestyle

The Strange World of Blind Rats and Pushy Pied Pipers

We have all turned into blind rats, lured by the flute of pushy Pied Pipers of the commercial and corporate world. Our needs, our ambitions, aspirations, dreams, even...

November 30, 2016
Muddasir Ramzan
Poem

Vegetated Soul

Here’s an inward looking poem by Muddasir. The person we often seek is within us, says the young poet, in Different Truths. He, wearingly, unlocks a door to a room,...

May 25, 2016
Shernaz Wadia
Poem

Weeds

Shernaz celebrates nature in this evocative poem. we bloom invisible, undesirable among seemingly well-laid out ornamentals; you wage war on us wanting our annihilation we are not an anomaly...