Patricia Chandrashekhar

blogs from Mumbai

A paragraph using these 5 words
For the past three and a half months I've been teaching Creative Writing to the SYBMM (second year students of the Bachelor of Mass Media) students in St Xavier's college in Mumbai. If there was just one word to describe them it would be 'incorrigible.' It's pretty difficult to control a class of 60...
Posted on 3 October 2013 | 12:17 pm
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WRITING A BOOK
WRITING A BOOK Who's the smart person who said that there is a book in all of us? Well it's true isn't it? Don't you hear people say 'Oh I could write a book on that subject'? Or 'I could write a better book' ? Modern technology has made it much easier to publish a book. Here are a few tips for you,...
Posted on 25 April 2013 | 11:39 am
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Not exactly Valentine's Day
Two days before Valentine's Day I challenged my young friends to write a most romantic first line followed by the most romantic second line. I had seen this in one of the newspapers a few years ago and thought it would be fun to do. As an example I gave them these lines: I see your face when I'm dre...
Posted on 22 February 2013 | 7:49 pm
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