Marriage - Different Truths

September 9, 2025
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Relationship & Lifestyle

Marriage vs. Live-In: Which Offers True Love and Security?

Dr Amrinder opines that marriage, despite flaws, offers stability and protection, outlasting live-in relationships that often leave women vulnerable without legal or social support, exclusively for Different Truths. ‘Do...

August 23, 2025
Mamta Joshi
Short Story

A Bowlful of Elegy

A poignant and sensitive portrayal of two women, Badi ma and Choti ma, the two sisters-in-law, whose lives are strangely braided. Their glaring differences notwithstanding, they are totally dependent on...

March 22, 2025
Chitra Gopalakrishnan
Book Review, Poem

‘Wives’: Love In Between the Lines of Shadow and Soul

Chitra reviews “Wives”, which explores spousal perceptions through 48 poets, revealing love’s complexities, from fierce intimacy to stark estrangement, in diverse voices, exclusively for Different Truths. This anthology that...

June 10, 2024
Payal Talreja
Gender

Boys will (Not) be Boys: Towards a more Human Society

We talk all the time about what we would teach our daughters, but we equally need to engage in reorienting that which is taught to our sons, not just...

May 30, 2024
Tooba Masood
Gender

The Right Shade of Feminism

Feminism has many layers of meaning. Tooba critiques it, saying that with concepts like feminism, it is sad that much of what it never stood for is now attributed...

March 9, 2024
Rita Bhattacharjee
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Do We Love Older Women in Literature?

Rita remembers five older women characters in fiction, who are strong feminist characters, as part of the special feature on International Women’s Day (IWD), exclusively for Different Truths. Books...

October 11, 2023
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Prayers, Yoga, Meditation, Nature Cure and Ayurveda practiced at Parmarth Niketan

Parmarth Niketan believes in Yoga being a way of life and making one’s life into a prayer to God. Hence they believe a devout person should follow the daily...

August 21, 2023
Nikita Goel
Relationship & Lifestyle

Are We Becoming More and More Isolated?

Studies suggest social isolation is associated with a higher rate of death in older people and loneliness is the “hidden killer” of the elderly. Nikita reveals the ugly underbelly of our...

May 23, 2023
Nikita Goel
Beauty, Relationship & Lifestyle

Gori Bahu: An Indian Obsession for Fair-skinned Brides

Fair skinned brides are an archetype of the Indian society. Everyone wants a Gori Bahu (fair daughter-in-law). From trophy wives to the beauty industry, fairness creams and soaps dominate...

April 20, 2023
Harsh Vardhan 'Samrat'
Poem

Who will Save Sati?

Here’s a poem based on a true story on how Harsh saved a woman from being burnt alive in the name of a superstitious ritual named ‘Sati Pratha’ that...

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