Light Archives - Different Truths

October 25, 2025
Mowmita Sur
Short Story

The Glow Within: How Love and Light Reflect the Divine

Mowmita’s story is about a luminous reflection on fireflies, love, and light—where nature’s glow becomes a metaphor for inner radiance, joy, and soulful connection, for Different Truths. My story...

October 16, 2025
Kamrun Nahar
Poem

Jibanananda’s Kite: A Metaphor of Rebirth

Kamrun’s poem dwells on a wingless kite that soars through pain and light, echoing Jibanananda’s laughter—where loss transforms into flight, freedom, and rebirth, for Different Truths. Jibanananda's kite now...

July 19, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

Sexism and Literature

Payal re-examines classics and popular comics to explore how sexist their content is, exclusively in Different Truths. Recently, I decided to recycle through all the old books that I...

July 16, 2025
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Music of Love

A love poem, by Deeya, exclusively for Different Truths. Rivers run backstifled weeds mock the timethe sorrow of life the soreness-brown humbugthat fade away with timenever to return Orchids spell their woein a...

June 12, 2025
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Creation of God…

In this verse, Sarala sings the praise of God’s creation, exclusively for Different Truths. Blooming buds Tiny and cute Colourful fragrant flowers Spreading aroma everywhere Mighty mountains High and brown Verdant meadows Green and lush Singing brooks Swaying...

March 11, 2025
Meher Pestonji
Poem

Melodies, Love and Light in Mountain River

Meher’s poem explores the life cycle of a river, from its birth to its eventual merging with the sea and return as rain, exclusively for Different Truths. Womb of...

March 8, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

The Bitch, the Witch or That Woman on a Shaky Pedestal?

Millions of women are ostracised for what is normal, and in fact, a magical and powerful bodily function that enables the miracle of life. It is our fear of...

December 3, 2024
Sohini Roychowdhury
Mythology, Religion, Spirituality

Kali: The Dance of Uninhibited Energy, Light and Darkness

Sohini and Rishi explain Kali, a deity representing divine feminine power, as the eternal cycle of creation and destruction, life and death, exclusively for Different Truths. Kali is all...

October 2, 2024
Sunita Paul
Fairs & Festivals, Poem, Special Feature

Mahalaya: Ya Devi!

Sunita remembers the Mahalaya, when the Goddess is invoked to drive away darkness from our lives. A poem for the Durga Puja, in Different Truths. She of the allied forces,He...

July 29, 2024
Suveera Sharma
Environment, Waste Management

Drowning under Waste

Hong Kong faces a huge waste disposal problem. Hidden under many of its beautiful parks, golf courses and sports grounds are millions of tons of garbage. Only three of...

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