Panic Archives - Different Truths

September 14, 2024
Dr Ketaki Datta
Short Story

Focus: Razia’s Rebirth, a Tale of Hope and Resilience

The Taliban replaced Mujahadeen terrorists in Ketaki’s story, revealing their sinister realities. Ishara, a newborn baby, is wrongly implicated in murder. How does it end? An exclusive for Different...

September 4, 2023
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Time for Retiral

Retirement calls for many adjustments in life. Mamta celebrates it in verse, for Different Truths. The shrill alarm bellThe acid refluxOf tightrope walkOf panic hasteDays, months, yearsAt home and...

January 7, 2022
Alisha Phillips
Short Story

The Scars Within

Here’s an evocative short story by Alisha that she penned during a Creative Writing Workshop, conducted by our Editor-in-Chief, Arindam. An exclusive for Different Truths. Red. That was the...

July 1, 2020
Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein
Health, Pandemic

Covid-19 Pandemic: A Felt-Need to Address Depression and Suicides

Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta HusseinTabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein is an aesthete from Dhaka, Bangladesh and MA holder in British and American literature. She is a poet from unheard voices that...

May 19, 2020
Soumya Mukherjee
People, Relationship & Lifestyle

A Suspicion

Soumya MukherjeeSoumya Mukherjee is an alumnus of St Stephens College and Delhi School of Economics. He earns his daily bread by working for a PSU Insurance company, and lectures...

April 8, 2020
Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein
Governance, Pandemic

Banish Fear, Panic, Ripple Effect, Mass Hysteria and Chaos During the Global Pandemic

Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta HusseinTabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein is an aesthete from Dhaka, Bangladesh and MA holder in British and American literature. She is a poet from unheard voices that...

December 17, 2019
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour

A Flight to Lahore

Soumya MukherjeeSoumya Mukherjee is an alumnus of St Stephens College and Delhi School of Economics. He earns his daily bread by working for a PSU Insurance company, and lectures...

August 20, 2018
IPA Service
Mass Media, Politics

National TV Media Finally Smell Petrichor: Kerala Bracing Up for More Trouble Ahead

Sad commentary on the media. One man’s death counted more than the lives of thousands. Misplaced priority? But who’s gonna tell that to a media sold to an idea,...

June 6, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance, People

A Friendship Soured

Hemashri recounts a painful, real-life experience in a fictional voice in the weekly column exclusively for Different Truths. Syamoli still wonders whether colleagues could ever be friends! She wishes...

May 28, 2018
IPA Service
Dissent, Politics, World

Fifty Years after May Revolt, France is Boiling Again: Formation of a Popular Front is on Agenda

Millions of people across France are reliving these momentous events of half a century ago in the most appropriate way: by downing tools and taking to the streets. Once...