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An article by Meira Chand in The Straits Times, 24 May 2016 Read more >
Author Archives: Meira Chand
A Strangely Mixed Bag of Possiblities
An article by Meira Chand in The Straits Times, 23 April 2016 Read more >
At SG51, Let’s Turn to Nation-Building for the Soul
An article by Meira Chand in The Straits Times, 9 August 2016 Read more >
The Creative Process
Writers of fiction own a strange something that wills and works for itself. It can feel like another being within the individual that often does not listen to the structured visions created in the head of a novelist, and drawn up in tight plans for a future book…
On writing A Far Horizon
Historical fiction raises the question, what really is history? The knowledge of events and things that come down to us through the mists of time have inevitably changed perspective over and over again in their telling. Often those who have handed down the past to us in their writing, have deliberately distorted the information, so …
On writing The Painted Cage
At one point in my life I became a suspected murderess. I was living in Japan at the time, and became interested in the life of Edith Carew, an Englishwoman who had lived in Japan at the end of the 1800s. Edith had settled with her husband in the port city of Yokohama, one of five treaty ports where foreigners were allowed to reside…