old age home Archives - Different Truths

May 27, 2025
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Healing Lost Love: The Power of Compassion

Sarala poignantly captures in verse the agony of an aged mother sent to an old-age home, exclusively for Different Truths. Oh God, how I cried to see that old...

April 9, 2024
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy

Rights of the Elderly: Government Policies and Schemes for Older Persons

Rita takes a look into the rights of the elderly and educates us about various government policies and schemes for the elders, in the weekly, exclusively for Different Truths....

June 8, 2018
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Her Burning Heart…

The pain and agony of a mother in an old age home has been evocatively portrayed, by Sarala, exclusively for Different Truths. Behind that burning candle There stands a...

November 14, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Great Expectations

Sarala talks of her dreams of better India, in this poignant verse, in Different Truths. I have a dream I have a dream To see my motherland bloom With...

March 2, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, Relationship & Lifestyle

Rights of the Elderly: Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens

More and more couples are working full time, families have become smaller and nuclear, migration, and consumerism have become the order of the day. At the same time, life expectancy of...

January 3, 2017
Saheli Mitra
Crime, Gender, Human Rights

Open Letter of a Woman to the New Year Star

She is the woman of the world. She loves stars, those twinkling little stars that dangled on her poetry book and sparkled on cold nights to give her company and...

October 9, 2016
Aseem Asha Usman
Fairs & Festivals, Gender, Rituals & Practices, Special Feature

Durga Redefined: A Muslim Girl Inspired by Durga Paints the Goddess

Saba Ikram documented the life of many Sufi women of Delhi like Bibi Sam, Bibi Sara, Mai Saheba and Jahanara. She took interest in Devi Durga’s stories. The author asked...

June 13, 2016
Arindam Roy
Advocacy, Announcement, People

Elders Need Loving Care, not Isolation and Neglect

Elders have given us their all, every iota of their love and care. What do we give them in return, isolation, neglect and social ostracisation. Here’s a curtain raiser...

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