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A Sweet Little Dolly

She was born in Calcutta Medical College on November 15 1933, past …

Looking for my Ancient Religion in Uzbekistan

Still, I was in search of something more, something concrete, something material …

The Deoliwallahs: The untold account of the Chinese-Indians

Just after the Sino-Indian War of 1962, about 3,000 Chinese-Indians Chinese migration …

The Couple Who Built Sreenibas

Sreenibas, the house on Morabadi Hills in Ranchi,  was built by my …

The Assamese Connection: Bishnupriya, Gunabhiram and Swarnalata

 I was around 9 or 10 when I first learnt that my …

Daddy: A Man of Many Moods

I wasn’t the midnight’s child, arriving three weeks later in 1947 when …

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