"Envy the work of a writer but not the life, because a paper and a pen is all a writer  has to seek solace from." - Diamond Sodhi
 

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My name is Diamond Sodhi!

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You're at my happy place! This is where I blog, dump my thoughts and share my reflections on life. Skim around and see the world from my eyes.

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THIS INSPIRES ME TODAY! “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead." -Graham Greene
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Dera Sahib

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….

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January 12, 2018
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The Art of “Show & Tell” in Memoir Writing

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…

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December 1, 2017
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Representation Details In Memoir Writing

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…

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November 21, 2017
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Confronting The Cults

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…

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November 19, 2017
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