literature - Different Truths

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...

January 3, 2025
Abhignya Sajja
Criticism

Focus: What Makes a Good Death? Exploring Mortality in Literature

Abhignya analyses Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” exploring themes of mortality, authenticity, and the search for meaning in life and death, exclusively for Different Truths. Writing that mulls...

September 27, 2024
Urna Bose
Criticism, Literature, People, Poem

Discovering the Hidden Gems of Keki Daruwalla’s Poetry

Keki N Daruwalla is decorated police personnel, a security consultant brushing shoulders with the Prime Minister of India, politics, poetry, short stories, novels – a kaleidoscope in motion. Urna...

May 21, 2024
Subhra Souranshu Pujahari
Poem

Can Literature Guide us to Being Right?

Subhra’s poem explores the concept of being “right,” questioning its source and the influence of history, literature, and language on one’s perspective, exclusively for Different Truths. I am right.Why...

April 26, 2024
Dr Ashok Kumar Verma
Poem

Grow Young with me

Ashok celebrates the youth of literature in this poem, in Different Truths. Enjoy life don't ignore Beauty of whole Search the best vision of life Literature has greatness...

April 3, 2024
Shormita Bose
Advocacy, Films, Gender, LGBTQIA+, Literature

Love is Love: Evolution of LGBTQIA+ Rights in India

Shormita explores LGBTQIA+ issues in India: stigma, family rejection, and rising visibility in media, exclusively for Different Truths. Homosexual relationships are highly stigmatised in Indian culture and society. In...

November 20, 2023
Tapati Sinha
History & Culture

A Potion to Heal and Kill

Since thousands of years poisons have been both a deadly threat and a protective tool used around the world. Poisons have played a dominant role in our history and...

September 9, 2023
Sumana Bhattacharjee
Literature, Poem

Essence of Love

May 11, 2023
Mamta Joshi
Criticism, Poem, Tribute

A Glimpse into Haiku Poetry and its Influence on Gurudev Tagore

Mamta traces and critiques the influence of Haiku on Gurudev Tagore’s poems, exclusively in Different Truths. Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry, which began as a popular...

February 24, 2023
Dr. Sudhansu Dash
Literature, Poem

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