A popular narrative device is the "dual timeline." As the Dada recounts his own youth—perhaps a love story lost to time or a long-enduring marriage—the Poti navigates a strikingly similar conflict in the present. The fiction draws its power from mirroring the past with the present.
One rainy afternoon, Meera found Dada in the attic, staring at a dusty, rusted tin box. "Is that a treasure chest?" she teased.
A popular narrative device is the "dual timeline." As the Dada recounts his own youth—perhaps a love story lost to time or a long-enduring marriage—the Poti navigates a strikingly similar conflict in the present. The fiction draws its power from mirroring the past with the present.
One rainy afternoon, Meera found Dada in the attic, staring at a dusty, rusted tin box. "Is that a treasure chest?" she teased.
