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April 28, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Cinema, Obituary

…And I Wept for Vinod Khanna, my Teenage Crush!

The images of Vinod Khanna haunted Samina throughout the day and by the end of the day, she felt a heart-wrenching pain. It was unbearable and she found tears...

April 16, 2017
Muddasir Ramzan
Short Story

Fallen Life

Here’s a poignant short story, a sudden fiction, by Muddasir, dealing with the gloom of death, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. In a whirring euphoria of...

March 14, 2017
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, People, Religion

Children of Hope: Face to Face with Dalai Lama

Eswar reminisces meeting His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama for the first time. He recalls the deep reverence among the Tibetan people for their religious leader. Read more about...

February 16, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Religion

Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: The Story of Sati – XIII

Prajapati Daksha was not favourably disposed towards Lord Shiva. He thought Shiva had insulted him in the past by not standing up to respect him during the Brahma Satra...

January 7, 2017
Different Truths
Book Club

Jihad in my Saffron Garden: A Search for Global Peace among Terrorism and Turmoil

Roshina is a famous writer. Love has eluded her and her passions are her work and her son Zohaib, who she has brought up single-handedly. Despite possessing grit and substance,...

December 9, 2016
Sehar Siddiqi
Poem, Short Story

Romancing the Celestial Bodies and Strawberry Fragrance

Here are two literary works by Sehar, a poem and a short story, woven around the theme of the silent solitude. In Romancing the Celestial Bodies, she delves into the...

August 24, 2016
Elsy Satheesan
Poem

Frozen Pain

Elsy talks of love, hope and pain in this verse exclusively for Different Truths. She arrayed her dreams like petals of a rose, lent them the scent of her...

April 18, 2016
Tatjana Debeljacki
Poem

Bare Face

A bold and stark poem by Tatjana I’ve been sick since the very start, I don’t care up to the very end of the game. They lost it. What...

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