Let Us Talk About Rape
Rape is not just sex. It’s about control and power. Payal takes a hard look rape, its survivors and suggests viable solutions to this problem, in the weekly column,...
Faraz Ansari: Will India respond to the Sisak of the LGBTQ Community?
Director Faraz Ansari’s Sisak is the first silent LGBTQ film of India that is not only creating waves at international film festivals but winning awards too; seven, so far....
Unravelling the Mysterious Truths of Shane Brookman
Seattle-based Chhavi profiles Shane Brookman, a 38-year-old student at South Seattle College, talking about his experiences from being a high-school dropout to now continuing and completing his Associate’s of...
Battle of Inclusiveness and Privacy
Seattle-based Chhavi analyses an Op-Ed piece, published in the New York Times, on October 15, 2016. She, thus, unveils the identity issue of a transgender girl, in the weekly...
The Life and Times of Guru Dutt: He Became the Tragic Characters he Portrayed Onscreen – III
Samina concludes the three-part series on Guru Dutt, with his life and times. The boundaries between the reel and real life blurred. Here’s a tribute to the tragic hero,...
Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Parashurama – XXIV
Nilanjana retells the story of Parashurama, the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. Parashurama is the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu. The...
Women in Bollywood: A Journey from Sati Savitri to Mary Kom
Films are an integral part of Indian societies. They have constantly shaped the beliefs and mindsets of Indian people for over a hundred years now. A few decades ago,...
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...
Onaatah, Shunned and Shamed, a Victim of Sexual Assault, in Search of Hope!
Is there justice outside courtrooms for a rape victim? The law might take its own course, but what does a woman do when the society shuts its door on...
Women Hold up Half the Sky[i]: A Special Issue on IWD 2017, in Different Truths
Different Truths (DT) has been publishing special issues and has also brought out seven Anthologies of Poems on several topics in the past. Here’s the eighth Anthology of Poems,...