Prison - Different Truths

June 2, 2025
Dr Azam Gill
Crime, War & Conflicts

Focus: The Surprising Life of Hijacker Hashim Qureshi in Jail

Praveen Swami’s analysis of “False Flags” precedes this account of Dr Azam’s 1975 jail encounter with Hashim Qureshi, the 1971 Ganga hijacker. The author met him in jail, an...

November 30, 2024
Shail Raghuvanshi
News in Verse

Focus: AI Illusion, Prison Reform, and a Cricket Sensation Shines

Shail delves into the blurred lines between virtual and real in a digital world, highlighting potential misuse of AI, economic disparities, and U-19 cricket exclusively for Different Truths. Make...

January 15, 2022
Shernaz Wadia
Poem

Tour of a Decommissioned Prison: Reflections

A spine-chilling account of a decommissioned prison, by Shernaz, exposes the barbarity of man against his fellow beings. An exclusive for Different Truths. cramped cubicles... minuscule 4’x7’ cells with...

October 25, 2021
Pankhuri Sinha
Poem

Reinventing Ourselves for Magical Recovery

An autobiographical poem, by Pankhuri, about exploitation, scheming, framing and lastly, hope. An exclusive for Different Truths. Pronounced an illegal immigrant Out of the blue In my own front...

May 9, 2021
Dr. Navodita Pande
Criticism, Poem, Short Story, Special Feature, Tribute

Remembering Tagore

In all of his creative works, what touched Navodita is the poignancy and the deep feeling of emotion that flow with his thoughts – the sensitivity, the words...

July 20, 2018
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: Krishna in Mathura – LXXXI

Nilanjana recounts the tale of Krishna in Mathura after he had vanquished Kamsa, in the weekly column. A Different Truths exclusive. Pariskhit was also moved to tears by the...

June 19, 2018
Ayub Khawar
Poem

The Whore

An enigmatic and evocative poem by Ayub, exclusively for Different Truths. This darkness Of the room why doesn’t become darker? Memories of the past flicker on the walls,...

June 5, 2018
IPA Service
Business, Social Sites

Facebook in Trouble it phoned up a Decade Ago: Situation Has Got a Lot Trickier for Zuckerberg

The clean-cut CEO of Facebook, social media where friends serenade friends and get high on ‘likes’, was just getting over the profligacy of Cambridge Analytica when the NYT comes...

May 29, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Anti-BJP Front Has to Avoid Fate of Janata Party in 1979: Regional Leaders Must Have a National Vision

There is a modicum of truth in Jaitley’s argument that the “chemistry” of a New India will overcome the “arithmetic” of “disparate” political groups because of Narendra Modi’s personal...

May 8, 2018
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Translation, Tribute

Red Oleanders: An Evaluation of Translational Strategies of Tagore

Tagore’s visit to Europe and America is one of the stimuli that leads him to write Rakta Karabi and then to translate that into Red Oleanders for pinpointing the crises of western civilisation...

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