River - Different Truths

March 3, 2022
Mamta Joshi
Poem

A City’s Penance

Here’s a social commentary in verse by Mamta. An undying treeOn the banks of rivers threeTwo polluted, one mythicalA C'ezanne brown medieval fortMysterious shadowsetched under its arches and columnsSilently...

January 18, 2022
Mitali Chakravarty
Humour

How do I Fish…

Mitali talks about fishing, replete with wit and humour. An exclusive for Different Truths. How do I fish? Let me count the ways. I love to fish to the...

September 16, 2021
Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
Poem

Dreaming Dhaka on the River Buri-Ganga

Memories of people, boatmen, food, songs, a river, encapsulates the agony of a migrant father, in this poem, by Dr. Roopali. An exclusive for Different Truths. When you grow...

August 25, 2021
Dr. Kumud Bala
Poem

A River’s Woes

A river questions tradition in this powerful protest poem, by Dr Kumud. River symbolises voyage and here we see two voyages, within and without. An exclusive for Different Truths....

June 15, 2020
Rekha Nambiar
Poem

The Melody of the River…

February 14, 2020
Eliza Segiet
Poem

It was the Same

December 5, 2019
Neelam Saxena Chandra
Poem

The Spring

April 16, 2019
Neelam Saxena Chandra
Literature, Poem

Illimitable You

August 18, 2018
IPA Service
Environment, Natural Calamity

Malayali Greed has Come Home to Roost: Unprecedented Flood Devastation is Man-Made

It is no time for a blame game. And yet it may be not be inappropriate to do a reality check. The agonising experience has put the fear of...

July 2, 2018
Manish Kaithwas
Cover Story, Crime, Gender, Human Rights, Legal Issues

When Solutions are worse than Problems: Analysing Amendments in POCSO and Rape Laws

The death penalty of convicts, definitely, does not hold an answer to the burning question of a rise in rape and related crimes. Even Justice Verma Committee has said,...

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