Smiles Archives - Different Truths

February 25, 2025
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

A Dark Love Letter: Sleet, Icicles, and Frozen Landscapes

An evocative verse by Elsy where Nature and life intertwine transcending from the individual to the cosmic sensibility, exclusively for Different Truths. Tonight, it is sleet,silently creeping downthe muted...

February 2, 2023
Devika Raghave
Potpourri, Travel & Food

The Winter of Beauteous Bhopal

Devika celebrates the winter, with its chai, exhibitions, roses, flower shows, snacks picnics in Bhopal. The city bounced back from a terrible tragedy. Here’s a candid account. Winter is...

January 4, 2022
Tribhawan Kaul
Short Story

First Crush

An interesting love story by Tribhawan, exclusively for Different Truths. He was 20 going on 21. Four letter word ‘love’ was taboo so far his conservative family was concerned. Eagle eyed...

December 28, 2021
Dr. Amrinder Kaur Bajaj
Fiction, Special Feature

Book Extract: For the Love of a Man

The book For the Love of a Man is a heavily fictionalized account of her life that lays bare taboo subjects like female sexuality, exposing what right-thinking people would carry...

September 16, 2019
Soma Bhowmik
Poem

Hope

Soma BhowmikSoma Bhowmik wears many hats. She is attached with the creative world as an artist. Her subject is oil painting on canvas. She is an actress and an...

February 23, 2019
Kiren Babal
Literature, Poem

Fragrance of Art

Kiren BabalA Graduate in Psychology (Hons), Kiren Babal has a flair for writing both in English and Hindi. She has dabbled many a shade with creativity. Be it doing...

May 13, 2018
Nanditaa Bannerjee
Parenting, Relationship & Lifestyle, Special Feature, Tribute

The Making of my Mother

Nanditaa recalls her time with her mother. She perhaps realised the meaning of motherhood when she became one. An inward-looking, reflective piece, as Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths....

January 18, 2018
Kabir Deb
Poem

Salvage

Here’s an intense, enigmatic poem, by Kabir, that deals with the cruelty of the society, for Different Truths. The hell replenishes itself Pleased by her evil desires as mirage ...

November 30, 2017
Kabir Deb
Poem

Fate of a Prostitute

An intense and powerful poem, with grotesque imagery, that depicts the life of a prostitute, by Kabir, in Different Truths, Every night haunts her Even when she smiles seductively ...

November 14, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Great Expectations

Sarala talks of her dreams of better India, in this poignant verse, in Different Truths. I have a dream I have a dream To see my motherland bloom With...

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