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I just upgraded my iPhone to iOS 12 and saw the most glaring reality staring at me- a continuum measuring the time spent on social networking, creativity, and productivity. Guess what- I was embarrassingly unproductive! Okay- Picture this! What is that one predictable scene at…

The United Nations has estimated that up to 200 million females are “missing” today, most of whom would have lived in India and China. No, we’re not looking at such exceeding bounds of moderation here. We’re about a hundred years down the line and the…

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…