Urban - Different Truths

August 19, 2025
Kabir Deb
Poem

The World Today…

Kabir agonises about the meaninglessness of contemporary existence, giving us a slice of the urban life, in this verse, in Different Truths. More kisses, fewer conversationsOne truth is yet...

May 7, 2025
Dr. Molly Joseph
Poem

Dr. Molly’s poem is about the chores of a summer morning, exclusively for Different Truths. Outside the heat burns leaves shrivelling up.this summer a hot furnace...morning!pasted smileschewed up choressugarless...

April 16, 2024
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Missing on a Weekend

A bold prose-poem of Deeya, in Different Truths, set in the urban settings and sensibilities of the 21st century. Weekends are subterfuges in love, desire, pain. They are the extra...

April 12, 2024
Dr. Sangeeta Sharma
Poem

Concrete Jungles: A Look at Urban Disillusionment

Sangeeta’s poem explores the tension between beauty and goodwill in modern life, questioning mindless housing developments, exclusively for Different Truths. Like a philocalist I believe in eunoia It was...

July 26, 2021
Dr. Brajesh Kumar Gupta
Gender, Special Feature

Empowerment and Wellbeing of African Women

Many cultural customs and traditions infringe on the rights of women and children by subjecting them to abuse, in keeping with Africa’s gender equality and women’s empowerment agenda, and...

August 24, 2018
IPA Service
Economy, Employment, Labour

India Wage Report of ILO: Some Hits, Many Misses

The ILO report estimates that the real average daily wages in India almost doubled between 1993–94 and 2011–12 but fails to mention that the Indian GDP quadrupled between 1991...

August 24, 2018
IPA Service
Health

Ayushman Bharat far from Universal Healthcare

PM Modi’s announcements of building toilets, Ayushman Bharat, and opening up of more AIIMS do not fulfill the requirements for universal comprehensive health care to our citizens. The social...

June 21, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Gender

Indian Eve: Still a Long Way to Go

Ruchira tells us about the trials and tribulations of being a girl-child or a woman in the patriarchal Indian society, in the weekly column. A Different Truths exclusive. For...

June 6, 2018
IPA Service
Economy, Poverty

India is the Second Most Unequal Country, Globally

New World Wealth, a Johannesburg-based company, published a report where it claimed that India is the second-most unequal country in the world, with millionaires controlling 54 percent of the...

June 4, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy, Exploitation

BJP Ministers Insensitive to Plight of Farmers

During last four years of Modi government rule, in spite of long sustainable movement, the government continues to be unmoved. Thousands of subsistence level farmers and peasants committed suicide,...

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