Terror Archives - Different Truths

October 30, 2025
Mowmita Sur
Poem

Unlocking Terror: Confronting the Ghoulish Stranger at the Fireside

Mowmita’s Halloween poem: A lone desk ponderer confronts midnight terror and a ghoulish presence, finding ultimate salvation through spiritual faith and light, for Different Truths. When I sit at...

April 26, 2025
Shail Raghuvanshi
News in Verse, Poem

Focus: Bloodied Valley, Magic Gender, and Poacher Nabbing

Shail pays a tribute to the victims of the Pahalgam terrorist attack; she explores thepatriarchal perspective of practicing magic and talks about the canine gender’scontribution in preserving nature exclusively...

May 30, 2024
Ayub Khawar
Poem

Another Verse between Me and My Poem

Amidst harsh cruelty and metaphors of violence, the poet, and his poem are split apart, in this verse by Ayub, exclusively for Different Truths. In the yellow muddled morn,Thinking...

September 26, 2023
Dr Ashok Kumar Verma
Poem

God have Mercy on all of us

Ashok prays for the good of one and all, in this verse, in Different Truths. I'm blessed They will be blessed it is my prayer...

April 21, 2023
Sehar Siddiqi
Human Rights, Poem

The Oppressor and the Oppressed

Here’s poem by Sehar, in Different Truths that emerged following her recent conversations, in real and the virtual (read digital) spaces. She’s grateful to her teacher, Mamta Joshi, for...

May 5, 2022
Emmie Blake
Poem

Exile

An evocative dark poem, by Emmie, exclusively for Different Truths. Sea gusts pluck my hijab. Sea spray soaks my face, mingling with salt tears flowing down apace. They came...

July 22, 2021
Madhuri Bhattacharya
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Growing Up in Wilderness: African Stories of Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing was born to British parents, Alfred Taylor and Maud Me Veigh, in 1919. After the First World War, her father migrated to Africa and purchased three thousand...

January 22, 2021
Suchismita Ghoshal
Poem

Of War and Destruction

A dark poem, about war and destruction, by Suchismita, exclusively for Different Truths. All I can visualise is a hungry world, Ready to throttle the mankind, From its very...

March 10, 2020
Soumya Mukherjee
Law & Order, Terror Attack

Terror has no Religion

Soumya MukherjeeSoumya Mukherjee is an alumnus of St Stephens College and Delhi School of Economics. He earns his daily bread by working for a PSU Insurance company, and lectures...

March 16, 2019
Rupa Rao
Literature, Poem

Ethiopian End

Rupa RaoRupa is an army child who schooled in 9 towns in 12 years. She graduated from Jabalpur; did MBA, and Law from Mumbai. Travelling, learning about cultures, imbibing differences,...

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