She
A woman-centric poem that tells us about rape, the most heinous crime against her, exclusively for Different Truths. The dazzling sun shone bright on her, She smiled at him...
Shattered Innocence: The Urgent Cry of a Child Victim
Lucía’s childhood ended at ten, shattered by betrayal, enforced silence, and laws valuing compliance over her pain. A sordid tale of rape and childhood pregnancy, states Mowmita, for Different...
Technology is Omnipresent
Bangalore-based Farheen tells us how technology helps control temperatures effectively. Here are three necessities in our daily lives – it helps in keeping our tea or coffee warm, innovative...
Institutional Murder and Rape: Focus on the RG Kar Hospital Case
Prof Bhaskar compares Hathras and RG Kar cases, revealing systemic failures in India’s state apparatus in addressing violence against women, exclusively for Different Truths. If the Hathras incident represents...
Focus: Corruption and Collusion Obstruct Justice for Rape Victims
Dr Ketaki discusses the issue of rape and violence against women, highlighting historical accounts and societal changes needed to protect women, exclusively for Different Truths. Incidents of rape or...
Distance and Destined
Here’s a love poem from Lata, in Different Truths. Far away from your city, sitting beneath the stars, my impatient heart and sensible mind were fighting a deadly war.One...
A Cry for Justice: Womanhood’s Dignity Under Siege
A protest poem by Dr Molly on the Manipur rape cases wherein womanhood’s dignity is under siege as society grapples with imbalances and atrocities—an exclusive for Different Truths. Battling...
The Sun-god at Mount Horeb
An evocative poem to Nature – a prayer to the Sun-god – showing the deep connect with the heavenly bodies in African culture by Martins, for Different Truths. Sun-godsitting still...
A Poem on Everything that Cuts
An intense poem by Poornima, in Different Truths, that talks of the territorial nature of man, and more Have you seen a marked territory? A border that defines what...
Give Our Girls Those Guns
It’s an intense poem. Reena cautions the girl of the many dangers she faces in the world of men. Crunch by crunch the monster advancesIn its jaws I hear...