Augustinian Hideout
An enigmatic love poem by Eliza, for Different Truths. Uplifted by love I rush to you for fulfillment. I thought I was a woman. It’s not true − I...
A Visionary Auteur Goes Gently Into The Good Night
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” —Edmund Hillary Armed with a pedigreed background in film world and a distinct persona of her...
Travelling the World in NYC: Conversations with Cab Drivers and Other Multi-Cultural Excursions
The interplay of different cultures – read multiculturalism – opens the horizons to a person, who is compassionate and deeply observant. As a Dance/Movement Therapist, nonverbal communication is the...
Sojourner Truth, First Feminist to Assert Black Identity: Intersectionality and Truth
What Sojourner Truth may have been most famous for, not unlike the firebrand anarchist Emma Goldman, was her public speaking. Illiterate throughout her life, she nevertheless had a remarkable...
Anthology of Poems on Africa of Earth and Beauty
We present an Anthology of Poems, on Africa, wherein 66 poets, with as many poems, spread across 19 nations [India (41); Nigeria (8); two each from the US and...
My Story: Renu – I
Here are four stories from a novella that deals with love, marriage, and relationship, by Meenakshi, in the weekly column. Here’s the first part, exclusively for Different Truths. Hi!...
Pensive: The Gaze Within
Pensive is the mood that incubates and abets, facilitates and manifests as pristine creativity. Loads of works, through innumerable beings, bear testimony to the efficacy of a pensive mood...
Time the Church Took the Confession Test
A woman confessed to pre-marital sex with a priest to another priest. That libido in robes told the secret to two other ‘brothers’. And all three had a time...
Of Pizzas and Governance
Hemashri likens the money back Pizza policy of Domino’s to the government departments. Sadly, no one is accountable for the huge delays – in some cases to nearly 100...
Ghosts and Vultures Wait in the Wings: There is Killing to be made in Realty
The first “sightings” of ghosts in Charki-Dadri, where two aircraft fell after colliding midair, killing over 300, were reported nearly two-and-a-half months after the horrific mishap. The ‘House of...