Reflections Archives - Different Truths

August 13, 2026
Dr Aaliya Mushtaq Baba
Poem

Finding Meaning After the Burial of Desire

Aaliya presents a poignant reflection on life’s lingering uncertainties and unspoken grief, exclusively published on DifferentTruths.com. What lies ahead of the whispered uncertainties, the roared disappointments; and the evenings...

April 30, 2026
Vijayshankar Chaturvedi
Poem

The Tender Wound of Memory

Vijayshankar beautifully captures the complex emotions of a child anticipating a father’s return, featured on DifferentTruths.com Before the father’s return,the house alters its very respiration.Evening lingers at the threshold,and...

February 14, 2023
Different Truths Poets
Poem, Special Feature

A Mini-Anthology of Poems on V-Day

On the occasion of the Valentine’s Day, we bring to you a mini-anthology of six poems from India and Mauritius, showing many colours of love. Lily ponders about what...

February 11, 2020
Ken Allan Dronsfield
Poem

The Absence of Presence, Version III

Ken Allan DronsfieldKen Allan Dronsfield is a disabled veteran and prize winning poet from New Hampshire, he now resides on the plains of Oklahoma. Ken is a member of...

March 24, 2018
Different Truths News Service
Book Club, Book Extract

Elixir, a Voyage of the Mind: Bestseller and a Critically Acclaimed Novel

Where does our mind go, when we fall asleep? Can dreams weave a layer of parallel existence? Can there be another reality beyond all that we touch, see or...

October 8, 2017
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Human Rights, International Relations, Politics

A Critical Analysis of Human Rights with Focus on Foundational Weakness and Dual Nature of Human Rights

Our Editor-at-Large (Europe), Amit, raises questions that are of immediate relevance to international politics, as human rights are increasingly ‘mainstreamed’ into the policy framework of states. He critically reflects on...

September 26, 2017
Shail Raghuvanshi
Poem, Special Feature

The Mother

Shail invokes Goddess Mother Durga, in a verse, in Different Truths Mother has come home visiting her children like she does every year for nine days in various forms...

May 27, 2017
Anca Mihaela Bruma
Poem

We are the Children of Time

Here’s an intense poem by Anca, a lyric with epic proportions, in Different Truths. We are the Children of Time, our dew drops mirror our World, crossing the edges...

April 29, 2017
K Pankajam
Books

Exemplary of Poetic Excellence: Taming the Tides by Dilip Mohapatra

Pankajam reviews a book of poem by Dilip Mohapatra, Taming the Tides, exclusively for Different Truths. Book: Taming the Tides: New and Selected Poems ...

April 1, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Bollywood Birthdays: Ajay Devgan, Praveen Babi, and Jeetendra took the Silver Screen by Storm – I

Three famous Bollywood actors, Ajay Devgan, Parveen Babi, and Jeetendra have their birthdays in the first week of April. Smriti, a movie buff, profiles them, in the new column,...