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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
The Gap
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...
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...
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...
Adieu, my Dear Sampson!
“This is about the dog who adopted me,” writes Sukanya. She knows that he happened to her, that he helped her make wonderful memories, that she loved him so very...