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Despite having lived in a boarding school for years, the night meal often triggered nostalgia, and something else mingled in there- a haunting. The resplendent mountains outside the french window of the dining room were the diamond and gold studded mounds that stood helplessly dependent…

I read this in the notes on the history of our family: Over three centuries ago, when the Sodhi family’s caravan reached a hillock, a halt was called and a good look around taken to decide on the future habitation. An inviting clump of thick…

I will be using some excerpts from Sonali Deraniyagala’s memoir ‘Wave” to illustrate how to employ the “show, don’t tell” directive. The following paragraphs from her book effectively employ the “show, don’t tell” directive in the narration of the non-conversational scenes in her Memoir, which…

Using representational details in my memoir is imperative because I am reconstructing the scenes going back as far as over a hundred years. It is a huge challenge for me to transport the reader to an era which would be beyond the comprehension of many,…

It’s a Sunday morning and I give myself a stretch to scroll down the twitter feed on my phone. Firstpost’s tweet “Ram Rahim convicted of rape, followers abandon crumbling Dera empire and return to Sikhism” counts up the ongoing mental surmises that I almost reserved…