Flaming Archives - Different Truths

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...

September 23, 2018
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Special Feature, Travel & Food

tea, salt, and teranga

Not all salt harvesters are held in equal esteem. As in many economically-challenged zones across the world, outside Dakar, in the shallow basin of Senegal’s Lac Rose, salt workers...

June 2, 2018
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

Scars and Stars

An evocative poem about pain and transcending it, by Elsy, exclusively for Different Truths. Almost everyone has scars, one, or many, mild, or deep, manmade, or nature made. ...

January 24, 2018
Bindita Sinha
Poem

Combustion

Here’s an intense, woman-centric, inward-looking poem, by Bindita, for Different Truths. I am standing on the sea coast Inside me, there is a silent shout I am smoldering…I am...

November 11, 2017
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Sliver of Memories

An inward-looking, evocative verse by Mamta, in Different Truths. She tells us that in this ephemeral, ever-changing world, something doesn’t change. Like migratory birds I return home to the...

August 29, 2016
Mamta Joshi
Poem

A Flaming Saga of a Soul on Fire

In this evocative verse Mamta depicts the pain and agony of women. A dark poem with a ray of light, a slice of hope, at the end. Grief familiar soul...