Truth Vs Fact

By making the statements, "... But the truth is not the same as facts..." and "... you can make every word of an article true... and stil not come close to the truth at all" I think Iyer attempts to draw our attention to the fact that truth is entirely subjective to the person involved. In percieving, a place, event or the sort, the truth may differ from fact, depending on the perciever. Therefore by saying "... I think the writer has to be true to the mystery as well as the clarity of life..." and "A writer has to be accountable to the truth, and catching the truth of any situation is his first mandate," he suggests that it is left to the writers to accurately capture thier version of the truth in their writing.
It follows from his statement about truth vs fact that in his essay, "The Khareef", he conveys the truth as he perceives it. In the story he presents events and situations around him as he sees them. These may not be entirely true factually, but they represent his version of events.

Self And Community Week 8

This meeting was a fairly ordinary meeting. We met in Smith as usual. Mr Ramirez brought his enthusiasm and his eagerness to learn to the meeting as usual. 

We bagan the meeting by going throught the Skiff that day and identifying words which were unfamiliar to him and defining them. At the end of this exercise, he was pleased with himself because he was familiar with most of the words in the article.

After this, I dictated a passage from my laptop for him to copy down, in order to help him develop his writing skill as well as develop his vocabulary. We went through sentence-by-sentence, correcting his spelling errors. 

We parted ways an hour later. I appreciate Mr. Ramirez's willingness to learn and his humility in accepting correction, considering the fact that I am significantly younger than him.

Self And Community Week 7

I'm not particularly sure where I obtained the energy to pull through this meeting with Mr. Ramirez, as I was forced by workload to make do with just about and hour of sleep. But I only remembere that one full hour flew by sooner than I knew it. Once again, MR. Ramirez brought his enthusiasm and energy to the meeting.
We continued to work on the exercises from his book for forty minutes. We worked on different verb tenses and practised them in sentences. Then we moved on to our dictation exercise. This time along, as I had promised him, I came with prepared passages that had simple vocabulary. I noticed a significant improvement in terms of his proficiency in English up on till now. He is able to spell more words correctly and when he doesn't spell correctly, his attempts are generally logical (for example "tuck" versus "talk"). I always make it a point to encourage him to attempt to spell words that he is not familiar with.
The meeting ended on time and I felt that sense of fulfillment once again. Another successful meeting.