• Haunt On The Hills

    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…

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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. An inviting clump of thick…

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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 scenes in her Memoir, which…

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