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Creative Non-Fiction
Connections can be found in unexpected spaces, such as greenhouses and the flora they house. Despite knowing about greenhouses and histories of violence behind their creation, I wasn’t prepared for the array of emotions that assailed me when I visited a greenhouse for the first time—inside the Jardins Botaniques in Montreal.
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Afterwards, we strolled down the street. Actually, Annie and KK strolled, while I pretended to stroll, trying to inject a measure of insouciance into my knees in the hope that it would work its way upwards. “She is just a person,” I told myself, and turned to her, striving for jauntiness.
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Poet, editor and translator Sarabjeet Garcha, pens a beautiful essay that takes us to the depths of philosophy and poetry, colours and words mesh here in a vibrant symphony.
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Malini gives us a personal essay on women’s experiences and the body. In a subtle manner, the piece weaves in a political commentary as well.
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Monica Woo takes the reader on a journey with milestones marked by the lives of her nanny and her English professor.
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The Author imparts upon the readers the relish of Christmas feasts entwined with its history and significance
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The writer reflects on the wide range of emotions and experiences she had in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade being overturned.
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The writer pens her thoughts about anger, family and things in between.
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The author weaves a beautiful nostalgic narrative entwining kith and kin with the physical aspects of a camera.
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The author narrates an episode from his childhood foreshadowing his diagnoses and how he learned to get himself out of dangerous situations.
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The author writes about the gastronomical paradise of her childhood and how the organic changes forever changed the equation she shared with meals.
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The author reminisces about death and mortality and how it shapes the person one becomes.
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Language and what it means? What is lost even in the best of translations? There are some of the questions that the author ponders over. along with how language and cultures are much more closely related than they actually seem to be.
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The author rediscovers patience and the art of embracing cracks, but not without the serendipitious help from a 4 year old!
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Lena Gemmer writes about facing the unaccommodating public school’s educational system in her childhood, which is futile for students with learning diabilities.
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The author traverses the chasm between Jewish or Christian and the unknown.
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The author weaves a telling tale out of a a complex fusion of honey, mountains, lungs, honeycombs, childhood memories and falling stars.
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The author writes of a night’s experience replete with classical music, a cup of chai and nostalgia.
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The author, along with her family, go for a snowboarding post-quarantine vacation and she discovers, among other things, layers of meaning in Frost’s poem.
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The author and her daughter relate to their roots via the ashtonishing route of blueberries and how it represents the author’s grandmother.
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The author experiences the idiosyncratic romance of riding 2 wheels into Himalayan valleys and crosses paths never crossed before.
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The author takes a walk across bookstores in search for James Baldwin and for the metaphor it represents.
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Having read Dahl’s Matilda at 11 herself and then experiencing multiple cultures; the author goes through one end of the spectrum of not reading to the other end of the spectrum of becoming a bibliophile.
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The author’s experience of living in a new city is marred and streaked by the effect the city has on her, mentally as well as physically. She traverses the divide as best as she possibly can and finds herself short of being understood.