Womanhood Archives - Different Truths

September 13, 2025
Swara Thacker
Book Review

Why Nandini Sahu’s Medusa is a Game-Changer for Feminist Literature

Swara reviews Medusa by Nandini Sahu weaves myth and modernity, transforming Medusa into a symbol of empowered, authentic womanhood. Medusa, by the acclaimed poet, folklorist, and academician Nandini Sahu, depicts...

July 19, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

Sexism and Literature

Payal re-examines classics and popular comics to explore how sexist their content is, exclusively in Different Truths. Recently, I decided to recycle through all the old books that I...

March 8, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

The Bitch, the Witch or That Woman on a Shaky Pedestal?

Millions of women are ostracised for what is normal, and in fact, a magical and powerful bodily function that enables the miracle of life. It is our fear of...

February 28, 2023
Sehar Siddiqi
Education & Career, Gender, Special Feature

Question Marks that Still Haunt the Girl-child Education in India

Many girls are enrolled in schools but they never reach the classroom. Sehar details the reasons for low percentage of the girl-child education, which stops them from empowerment, for Different Truths....

March 12, 2022
Sriparna Dutta
Criticism, Gender, Special Feature

Empowerment, Feminism and the Hardyian Fallacy

Thomas Hardy’s heroines are not victims of sexual anesthesia. Sue is quite defiant in her stating her sexual preferences and never hesitates to be vocal about it. What is...

March 12, 2022
Different Truths Poets
Poem, Special Feature

An Anthology of Poems Celebrating Womanhood

We are pleased to present An Anthology of Poems Celebrating Womanhood, as part of the International Women’s Day (IWD) Theme that we, in Different Truths are featuring, spread over three days,...

March 11, 2022
Debjani Mukherjee
Gender, Human Rights, Special Feature

African Women Stand Tall against Female Genital Mutilation

Butchering girls’ private parts, cutting out healthy flesh in the name of religious ritual is barbaric. Whenever a girl or a woman gets cut, she becomes exposed to numeric...

March 11, 2022
Different Truths Poets
Gender, Poem, Special Feature

Still I Rise: IWD 2018, Anthology of Poems

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2018, Different Truths Poets present an anthology of poems, celebrating the woman, in paroxysms of emotions, enigmatic and multilayered, like...

December 29, 2021
Dr Jayita Sengupta
Short Story, Special Feature

Mandaravas

An enigmatic story that unfolds itself through metaphors and images, talking of dreams and desires, of love and lust and the quintessence of womanhood. This story is a part of the...

December 28, 2021
Dr. Tripti Sharan
Fiction, Gender, Health, Special Feature

A Spurious Existence

Two women in denial. One wanted a daughter from her second husband after 11 pregnancies – two deaths and six abortions. Belonging to Tajikistan, she donned a hijab but...

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