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67 Sophia Road House on the Hill

Jag Thind

‎"67 Sophia Road is an anomaly, where it begins life as a grand lady ‎but is destined to spend the rest of its days unceremoniously as a slum ‎dwelling." Thus begins 67 Sophia Road; House on the Hill, ‎expansive, idiosyncratic, nostalgic and evocative, the comic book ‎rendition captures the ecstatic evocation of characters and landscape ‎through the domestic, social and intimate lives of residents of a ‎tenement, typical of dwellings in Singapore during the 1970s. The ‎principal narrator of the saga, Jog-Man Boey, the fly-on-the-wall, ‎travels through time, space, and history to lay bare the numerous ‎discords, packed with misadventures and scandals as well as stories ‎and lives intertwined with the comings and goings of colourful ‎characters who inhabit 67 Sophia Road. Through thumbnail sketches, ‎the graphic novella also contains observations of controversial social ‎policies of the era as Singapore rapidly undergoes transformation in ‎the social and political arenas. And as the reader accompanies the ‎narrator on this journey through the shifting sands of time, they are ‎treated to an entertaining peek into a microcosmic Singapore of ‎yesteryears.‎

 

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ABOUT JAG THIND


Jag Thind was born in 1954 in Singapore, to immigrant Punjabi parents. Singapore had then recently gained its independence but as a former British Colony, it had to reckon with its British hangover in terms of language, culture, and society.
The author attended primary school in Singapore and high school in India. After serving national service in Singapore, he enrolled in the institute of education to train as a secondary school teacher. He graduated with a bachelor of arts, majoring in English from Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada. Jag migrated to Australia in the mid-1980s to pursue a Master's in education and has been teaching English since. He lives in Melbourne with his spouse and offspring as well as a tankful of oriental goldfish. Jag identifies himself as a hybrid citizen of the planet. The man has travelled extensively and apart from painting naïve art, he enjoys reading and writing. 67 Sophia Road; House on the Hill is a cumulation of travel, hindsight, nostalgia and fantasy.