Quoting Vajpayee to Bring Modi to Heel: When Insaniat with Pakistan Could Not Deliver
Told by Nehru when young that he will become PM one day, Vajpayee never looked far for a role model. Vajpayee wept “like a child” at Nehru’s death, says...
Bunch of Blooms: A Critical Analysis
Pankajam, a very prolific poet of high repute, standing in the garden of literature, with joy and pride, with her Bunch of Blooms, her eighth collection of poems tempts...
A Remarkable Horizontal Vastness and a Rare Vertical Depth in the Poetry of Basudeb Chakraborti – IV
Basudeb Chakraborti’s poetry has a remarkable horizontal vastness and a rare vertical depth. His poetry concerns itself with all the essential aspects of life and one feels the imprint...
My Service to Mankind
In this verse, Ashok tells us about his commitment as a poet and a person, exclusively for Different Truths. I woke up for humanity I walk and walk for...
Why I Respect the Dogs!
In this reflective and soul-searching outpouring, Tapati takes a hard look at our weak-kneed legal system, where rapists commit their dastardly crimes with impunity. She also talks of an...
Red Oleanders: An Evaluation of Translational Strategies of Tagore
Tagore’s visit to Europe and America is one of the stimuli that leads him to write Rakta Karabi and then to translate that into Red Oleanders for pinpointing the crises of western civilisation...
Marxism is the Only Potent Power for Change: Political Correlation of Forces Must Shift to Left
Marxism is not a dogma but a ‘creative science’. It is based on, amongst others, “a concrete analysis of concrete conditions”. Marxism is an approach to the analysis of...
Fighting for Love
An intense poem about the dog-eat-dog world of people, by Anoucheka, for Different Truths. What is it that makes us hate each other? Pray, looking at humans nowadays, One...