tears - Different Truths

September 1, 2016
Michelle Yost
Advocacy

Community Participation made the Project Viable

Fahim, as are all the children of the street, did not trust Kaushik initially. But, as he listened to him explain the benefits of having an education, a safe place...

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...

June 19, 2016
Lily Swarn
Cover Story, Human Rights, People

The Partition

The partition of India is a deep gash in our collective consciousness. Millions of people from West Punjab and East Bengal were rendered homeless. There were hunger, rape, loss of human...

June 12, 2016
Olaitan Maryam Mojisola
Poem

Tick Tock / The Sky and Winter

In Tick Tock, Olaitan dwells on the many narratives of time, from the personal to the eternal. Her second poem, The Sky and Winter, is an evocative verse about...

June 8, 2016
Maya Khandelwal
Poem

Melancholy

An inward looking poem where Maya talks about the dynamics of creativity, how it’s not easy to write about melancholy. I wring my eyes, tighten my jaw lines, and my...

June 6, 2016
Maksudul Ahsan
Poem

Two Protest Poems: Why do I Write? / Desire

An artist-painter from Bangladesh, Maksudul writes two protest poems for Different Truths. His translator, a poet and art critic, RS Yadav, introduces his poems to us. I was indeed happy...

May 28, 2016
Saheli Mitra
Poem

Shades of Eve

An enigmatic poem about a girl, and later a woman, by the cool banks, pebbles and tears by Blue Eve. ‘By your cool banks, I sat down at last....

May 17, 2016
Maya Khandelwal
Short Story

In this women-centric short story, Maya shows the generation gap between daughter-in- law and mother-on- law. How they are from different worlds, different times. The resolution is heart-warming. She has her...

May 11, 2016
Maya Khandelwal
Short Story

Pushpa

Here’s a short story by Maya for Different Truths. She looked substantially fine but for the over-ripened complexion and a little rowdiness in all her movements that perhaps she got...

May 10, 2016
Ritamvara Bhattacharya
Poem

Vaginas don’t have Homes/Dream of Apples

Two sisters, Dishani Roy and Ritamvara Bhattacharya, compose poems in sync. Here’s a jugalbandi of two intense poets and their poetry of protest. A Different Truths exclusive. Vaginas don’t have...

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