Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar's Blog, page 16
November 11, 2013
Same Story, Different Day
The wonderful thing about keeping a blog, diary or record, is that you can archive your life. While we may have fragments of our ancestors’ lives, thanks to modern technology, we are indexing ourselves faster than any library. This time last year, on this very space, I was bemoaning how far behind I was with […]
The wonderful thing about keeping a blog, diary or record...
The wonderful thing about keeping a blog, diary or record, is that you can archive your life. While we may have fragments of our ancestors’ lives, thanks to modern technology, we are indexing ourselves faster than any library. This time last year, on this very space, I was bemoaning how far behind I was with […]
November 6, 2013
Wordless Wednesday: Insert Your Own Metaphor
I noticed this guy before a lecture started. What a metaphor. How would you caption this photo?
November 4, 2013
Hinduism, Truth, and Fiction
This week was Diwali, the festival of lights in Hindu culture. It’s also the week that the blog tour for my latest novel, An Unlikely Goddess has kicked off. Blog tours are great fun because it’s a virtual version of a book tour without the sweaty palmed anxiety about whether or not people will show […]
October 29, 2013
Wordless Wednesday: No Woman, No Drive
Showed this video in class – my students are doing oral presentations – as an excellent example of a creative argument. Excellent, I explained to them, because of the use of irony, humor, and context to persuade us of the issue he’s passionate about. We all – including students from other Gulf countries – cracked […]
Wordless Wenesday: No Woman, No Drive
Showed this video in class – my students are doing oral presentations – as an excellent example of a creative argument. Excellent, I explained to them, because of the use of irony, humor, and context to persuade us of the issue he’s passionate about. We all – including students from other Gulf countries – cracked […]
October 27, 2013
Come NaNo with this Mo
National Novel Writing Month is about a week away; the time of year when thousands of people around the world agree to sit down daily, write 1600 words, towards a goal of 50,000 words by the end of the November. I’ve attempted NaNoWriMo (much cooler abbreviation) three times in the past five years. The […]
October 22, 2013
Wordless Wednesday: Fund the Kind of Movie You’d Like to Watch
Traces of Sandalwood: the kind of movie I want to watch so I supported it on Indiegogo. Muna is a 13-year-old orphan Indian girl who works as a domestic servant for a rich family in Mumbai. Not a single day goes by without her thinking of her younger sister, Sita, from whom she was forced […]
October 21, 2013
Protected: Week Three: Editing Versus Revising
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October 13, 2013
Protected: Week Two: Dialogue in Creative Non-Fiction
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