<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Priya Hajela"><item><title>Memoir or Fiction</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>A family means different things to different people in different parts of the world. It is often a word fraught with angst, duty, obligations, legacy, and secrets. Needless to say, family is a treasure trove of material for any writer. But writing...</excerpt></item><item><title>You Write Well If you Read Well</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491-300x168.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Reading well doesn’t just mean reading a lot. It also means reading closely to see what the author is doing with language, punctuation, tense, and words. Noticing these sometimes subtle nuances helps understand the writer’s craft and hone one’s ow...</excerpt></item><item><title>Are women’s successes being recognised today?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491-300x168.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Several lists of India’s most influential people include Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister at the top, followed by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Biocon Executive Chairperson, Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar, HCL Tech Chairperson Rosnhi Nadar Malhotra, SEBI ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Can Writing Be Taught?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491-300x168.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>The perennial question &amp;#8211; Can writing be taught? &amp;#8211; is asked by aspiring writers, by people without MFAs, by people with MFAs and by a whole category of people that believes that anyone can write if they put their mind to it. Clearly, mo...</excerpt></item><item><title>The Short Story-Short only in Form</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491-300x168.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>There are standalone short stories that get published in literary magazines, one at a time, staggered across multiple publications and over a period of time, stories that writers write when the feeling strikes, when the muse awakens, when the ligh...</excerpt></item><item><title>Rebellion of 1857: The varied voices</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491-300x168.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Much has been written about the Mutiny of 1857, referred to variously as the Sepoy Mutiny or the Indian Rebellion and The First War of Independence, in the years following the events and beyond. Most of the source writings are by English men and w...</excerpt></item><item><title>The Pale Blue Eye</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491-300x168.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>The film The Pale Blue Eye, starring Christian Bale and Harry Melling (as Edgar Allen Poe) is a story that takes place during Poe’s brief tenure at West Point Military Academy in 1830. The film is based on a novel of the same name by Louis Bayard,...</excerpt></item><item><title>The Pale Blue Eye</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491-300x168.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>The film The Pale Blue Eye, starring Christian Bale and Harry Melling (as Edgar Allen Poe) is a story that takes place during Poe’s brief tenure at West Point Military Academy in 1830. The film is based on a novel of the same name by Louis Bayard,...</excerpt></item><item><title>Anthony Bourdain in India</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491-300x168.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Anthony Bourdain is best known for his travel show, Parts Unknown and for his book, Kitchen Confidential. The immensely popular show ran on CNN from 2013 to 2018, till June 8, 2018, when Bourdain died by suicide while on location, filming an episo...</excerpt></item><item><title>The road not taken</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491-300x168.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other as just as f...</excerpt></item><item><title>Co-existing with stray dogs</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491-300x168.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Say anything about stray dogs, and there are some typical responses: Some say they are okay if you don’t bother them; others find them a nuisance and a danger to society; still others are completely oblivious; and finally, there is the group that ...</excerpt></item><item><title>You must belong to&lt;br&gt;at least one</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/memoir-or-fiction/</link><pubDate>March 27, 2023, 2:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/th-2023-03-27T024139.491-300x168.webp</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>It is believed that book clubs first started in the United States in the 17th century. The first book clubs had been about embracing the disenfranchised and women. Their focus had been to first give women an opportunity to read and discuss; later,...</excerpt></item></author></feed>