Your story landed
I have it. Thank you for trusting me with something from your family.
Here is what happens now. I read every entry myself. Ten go into the Season 1 anthology. If yours is one of them I write to you and we book an interview. If it is not, I still write and tell you so.
That takes a few weeks. Entries are still coming in and I read them in order.
One thing you can do today
Somebody in your family tells a better version of this story than you do. An uncle, a cousin, the aunt who remembers the dates. Send them this link:
Ask them to put your name in the box that asks who sent them. I keep count, and the people who send the most storytellers get their copies of Season 1 first, with a credit in the back of the book.
If you would rather send a message than a link
Copy this. It is written to be forwarded on WhatsApp.
An Indian biographer is collecting ten hidden stories from the Indian diaspora for a book. Not the success story. The one about leaving, and the first year, and the things nobody writes down. I sent ours. You should send yours: https://sgwashere.com/storyhunt
While you wait
Two things worth reading if you are wondering how a life gets written down: Answers, which is forty questions people ask me about this work, and writing a grandparent’s life story, which is what most people are really asking about.
If you remembered something after you hit send, that happens constantly. Write to sg@c4e.in and I will add it to your entry.