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January 19, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, Relationship & Lifestyle

Volunteering and the Elderly: Seniors Helping Seniors

Senior volunteerism isn’t just beneficial for those being helped – research shows that volunteering confers mental and physical health benefits for those doing the helping. It also fosters positive social and...

January 6, 2017
Bruce Louis Dodson
Poem

Postcard from Nepal – Mount Kailash

An evocative poem that’s more like a prayer to Lord Shiva, by Bruce, for Different Truths. The climb is more than is imagined Higher than the Sherpas dare to...

December 6, 2016
Geethanjali Dilip
Cover Story, Films, Homage, Politics

From Ammu to Amma: The Iron Lady of Unique Mettle of Tamilnadu

Geethanjali, who met the cine star, Jayalalithaa, as a child, pays a soulful tribute to the fiery, feisty and the proverbial Iron Lady of Tamilnadu, endearingly called ‘Amma’ by...

September 4, 2016
Neelam Dadhwal
Poem

With this Will

A poem of integration and hope from Neelam for Different Truths. There is nothing to conquest in this sky, and not theirs or ours if it is cut enough...

July 28, 2016
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

The Alphabet of Love

An intense, erotic prose-poem by Deeya. Sunsets have stories to unfurl I guess – each sunset one of its kind – it’s the quiet lilt in the far horizon...

June 3, 2016
Niladri Ranjit Chakraborty
Poem

Fireflies

Niladri demystifies freedom in this verse and exposes its delusions red in tooth and claw. Freedom is an orgy, it is the burning of an effigy. Intoxicated fireflies illuminate...

May 29, 2016
Duska Vrhovac
Poem

You Come

Duska sees the individual, the lover, in nature. She transcends the small self to seek truth in the greater self. You come seek shelter open your mouth but there’s...