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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...

June 19, 2024
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Here’s an inward-looking, intense poem by Deeya, for Different Truths. The river of mindSwift turquoise virulentSings of phallus and sickness Shimmering sands cajoleThe overriding spiritClacking shoes like devils shriek The Sonata In...

June 14, 2024
Sonali Chakraborty
Food

Yummilicious Kadai Paneer: Wholesome and Healthy

Sonali shares the recipe of one of the most popular Indian dishes, Kadai Paneer, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. It is sometimes difficult to decide what...

May 31, 2024
Farheen Viquas
Poem

Rhyme of the Dark Skin

A poignant verse about fairness, dark skin, and true beauty by Farheen, in DifferentTruths. Played in the sun and tanned her face In happiness quotient, she bagged first placeNo time...

May 30, 2024
Tooba Masood
Gender

The Right Shade of Feminism

Feminism has many layers of meaning. Tooba critiques it, saying that with concepts like feminism, it is sad that much of what it never stood for is now attributed...

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 9, 2024
Aishwarya Damodar
Poem

Mirage

In an evocative verse, Aishwarya talks of the illusions of life vis-à-vis the harsh realities, in Different Truths. all that Ibelieved inwas but a dreama carnivala fanfareor so it...

May 8, 2024
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

The Young Widow of Benaras

Here’s a heart-wrenching tale of a young widow of Benaras by Sarala, in Different Truths. The young widow in white attireWrapped around carelesslyhardly married for six monthsSitting under the...

April 30, 2024
Anika Ghei
Gender, Poem

Fast Forward

A bold, sensuous, agonising, and brutally candid verse. In Yeats’ words, ‘the ceremony of innocence is dead.’ Here’s the intense prose-poem by Anika, in Different Truths. Play: It’s my...

April 26, 2024
Dr Ashok Kumar Verma
Poem

Grow Young with me

Ashok celebrates the youth of literature in this poem, in Different Truths. Enjoy life don't ignore Beauty of whole Search the best vision of life Literature has greatness...