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August 20, 2021
Gopal Lahiri
Book Review, Poem

Soumitra Chatterjee’s Free Flowing Poems Translated into English

Gopal reviews a poetry book, ‘Walking through the Mist’, by actor-poet Soumitra Chatterjee, and translated into English from Bangla by Amitava Nag. An exclusive for Different Truths. Book: ...

August 20, 2021
Kamrun Nahar
Poem

O Poetry, I Waited for you

Kamrun writes a poem about poetry and what it means to her. An exclusive for Different Truths. O poetry I waited for you for a long, long time… I...

August 19, 2021
Amita Sanghavi
Poem

Forgetting

An evocative inward-looking poem, of despair and hope, by Amita, exclusively for Different Truths. I seemed to forget the sound of my voice I read aloud just to hear...

August 18, 2021
Rajashree Mohapatra
Poem

How Blessed is this Last Hour!

An evocative and enigmatic love poem, by Rajashree, exclusively for Different Truths. I have made this earth of your words my home, not keen to ascend to your heaven...

August 17, 2021
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Our Sand Castles Feeble & Strong

An enigmatic poem, by Sarala, about love, its loss and regain, exclusively for Different Truths. Remember our childhood days When we ran to the seashore To make sandcastles Sometimes...

August 16, 2021
K. S. Subramanian
Poem

My Tryst with the Spry Squirrel

An evocative poem about a squirrel, with reference in the Ramayana, exclusively for Different Truths I watched the spry squirrel scamper away hearing my footfall, its ear turned to...

August 13, 2021
Rajashree Mohapatra
Poem

Because You Are There …

An evocative love poem, by Rajashree, exclusively for Different Truths. Here you are like warm blood coursing through my veins, my umpteen body a river in spate that flows...

August 12, 2021
Shernaz Wadia
Poem

Volcanoes: A Dormant Scream of the Oppressed

A social commentary and a powerful protest poem, by Shernaz, exclusively for Different Truths. there is this scream dormant, suppressed in the collective psyche of the oppressed ...

August 11, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Poem

Philomela: Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow

A women-centric protest poem, by Dr. Roopali, exclusively for Different Truths. If you cut off a woman’s tongue like they did the other day in that dusty dirty town...

August 10, 2021
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

A Magical Medicinal Aloe Vera

Sarala identifies with the medicinal plan, Aloe Vera, in this verse, exclusively for Different Truths. I have thorns on all my juicy thick leaves Try not to come near...

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