Slaves Archives - Different Truths

April 19, 2025
Harinder Cheema
Poem

Should the World Go to the Dogs!

A brutal man mistreats dogs, while a dog speaks to the other. Here’s the allegorical poem, by Harinder, exclusively for Different Truths. A man was walking with immense pride,...

May 23, 2023
Nikita Goel
Beauty, Relationship & Lifestyle

Gori Bahu: An Indian Obsession for Fair-skinned Brides

Fair skinned brides are an archetype of the Indian society. Everyone wants a Gori Bahu (fair daughter-in-law). From trophy wives to the beauty industry, fairness creams and soaps dominate...

August 22, 2022
Dr Azam Gill
Cover Story, Human Rights

Silence of the Slavers

Western nations waited almost two centuries to realise they needed to move beyond abolition to restore slavery’s harm. Azam argues it will be a while before Iran, its Arab-Türkish...

April 26, 2018
Dr. Tzemin Ition Tsai
Criticism, Special Feature, Special Needs

The Intersection between the World Famous Books and the Picture Books

Reading a picture book is the interests and pastimes of many modern people. In the picture book world, the pictures are used as its compositions and colours, to show...

April 20, 2018
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty

The Enchanting, Enigmatic Turban and Other Headdresses for Women – VI

In the sixth and last part of the erudite research article, Fashionista Shameena tells us about turbans and other headdresses, particularly for women. She traces the current trends, tracing...

March 21, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, War & Conflicts, World

Indian Labourers in Big Distress in Foreign Lands: MEA and State Governments Have to be more Pro-Active

Due to an intervention by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Congress leader from Malda, Mausam Noor, 35 stranded migrant workers from Jharkhand and West Bengal have been rescued...

January 22, 2018
Kabir Deb
Drama

Slaves Still Rule: A Soliloquy from Kritodash

Kabir translates a famous soliloquy of a slave from the play Kritodash in Bengali. Crossing the barriers of time and place, the slave talks of the human consciousness from...

October 14, 2017
Aishwarya Damodar
Poem

Hope

Aishwarya talks of hope in times of despair in this verse, in Different Truths. anarchic is the world – in which we live in today where money has become...

July 14, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty, History & Culture

Sushruta, the Father of Plastic Surgery, was its Pioneer in Varanasi, India – I

Most historians agree that the first recorded account of reconstructive plastic surgery on the living is found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts. These texts describe procedures to repair noses...

July 2, 2016
Lily Swarn
Poem

A Shooting Star

An evocative poem from Lily that celebrates the bitter-sweet pathos of life. Jetting through space a star stopped in its tracks and played statue. It simply forgot to twinkle...

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