Pleasures Archives - Different Truths

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...

April 17, 2024
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

She

An evocative poem by Sarala that celebrates the innocence of a girl-child within an old woman, in Different Truths. Behind her silvery threads Creaking bones Wrinkled face Lifeless eyes Still,...

January 4, 2022
Tribhawan Kaul
Short Story

First Crush

An interesting love story by Tribhawan, exclusively for Different Truths. He was 20 going on 21. Four letter word ‘love’ was taboo so far his conservative family was concerned. Eagle eyed...

December 28, 2021
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Fiction, Special Feature

Book Extract: For the Love of a Man

The book For the Love of a Man is a heavily fictionalized account of her life that lays bare taboo subjects like female sexuality, exposing what right-thinking people would carry...

July 27, 2021
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career, Special Feature

The Challenges of Working in Africa

Preeyan tells us about the challenges of relocating to work abroad, particularly in Africa. He cautions that if you are moving to a country in Africa you expect what...

May 15, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Literature, People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

Touching Lives

She wanted to marry a classmate from her business school, who was from a different community and working in another small town at the end of the country. They seemed...

April 30, 2018
Swati Kumar
Crime, Gender

Crime against Women in India: The Black Dot of Shame

Our society is ruled by two “M’s” – Males and Money. Genders were never equal and I doubt that they ever will be in this country. Ours is a social...

September 4, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Health

Yoga Vashishtha: Renunciation Stands for Fearlessness

Our Yoga expert, Navodita. Tells us about Yoga Vashishtha, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Yoga Vashishtha is full of words of wisdom that succinctly explain the...

August 28, 2017
Ritambhara K Upadhyay
Potpourri

Three Reasons why you should Inculcate a Habit of Reading

Ritambhara tells us the benefits of inculcating a habit of reading, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Way back, in the early 90s, as a child, I...

August 13, 2017
Ayub Khawar
Poem

A Day on the Caucasus till the Next Morn

A love poem by Ayub, in the tradition of the Romantics, in Different Truths How I have escaped From the illusions of her lips! On her grayish eyebrows...

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