Birthing of a Muslim
Bushra fears the divisive and communal world her grandson would inherit in this poem, for Different Truths. In a world torn asunder With hate, prejudice, and conflict I gasp...
Banned Girl
An intense ballad about the perversity of the society for a woman, her sexuality, and salvation, by Kabir, in Different Truths. One night, two souls united Breaking many customs...
Grief
Bibi Amrit, fondly called Biji, doubled her thunderous output on realising that she had an opportunity to overpower Nasib, to show the train of mourners that a mother’s grief...
Dish Garden: Beautiful Gardening in Limited Space
Hyderabad-based Meera tells us about dish gardens. An expert, Rekha Bayanker, gave invaluable tips at a local club. Here’s a report, exclusively in Different Truths. In big cities where...
A Sprinkling of Joy
Nisha, our helper, is like thousands of other women, who have left behind their home and families in their countries, to seek a better future for themselves and their...
Origin… Rise of a New Dawn
The flow of a river, a day and life poignantly celebrated in verse by Geethanjali, for Different Truths. A silence overpowering sprawls lofty where life dizzies in a whiteout,...
Masquerade
Here’s a ballad from Sarala about the sensuousness of a woman, ready to unmask and take revenge, in Different Truths. Don’t take me for granted She swayed her curvaceous...
Tales from Srimad Bhagavatam: The Polluted Lake – XLIX
Nilanjana recounts the tale of the polluted lake and Kaliya, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Parikshit observed, “The life of Krishna was most certainly not easy....
Technology and Agriculture: Food for Thought
Farheen tells us how technology has helped agriculture, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. With so much of hustle-bustle around technology, thereby, most of us literary getting...
Vanished – I
Sumita tells us an engrossing story, in two parts. Here’s the first part, a horror-humour, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Dainagri: Police and government officials admit their...