My 71-year-old grandmother had to come to terms with the reality that she would have to leave her home and ...
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I am a 34-year-old mother of two beautiful children; Arina is 5 and Miron 3. I live in Moscow and ...
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9th May, the Victory Day, is celebrated on a grand scale in Russia. The document ending the Second World War, ...
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I love India and I love Indian food and can cook quite a few popular dishes like daal, shahi paneer, ...
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Sergei K. in conversation with Tapti Roy Thinking about the life and destiny of my dear Grandfather Vassily, I have ...
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By Galina Valiullina  I was 15 when grand aunt Evgenia Khovanskaya died in 1975, leaving her home to my mother ...
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I can remember Grantchester Road in Cambridge where I lived for under a year when I was 6 going on ...
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A day-long journey along the Black Sea from Russia to Georgia can be quite an experience for anybody. The journey ...
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 I came to live in Coochbehar with my parents- in- law after I was married. Coochbehar, 700 kilometres north of ...
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My introduction to buffalo hunting started soon after I arrived in Australia in 1960 as a Ten Pound Pom. After ...
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My particular memory goes back some 90 years to when I was living with my rather troubled family in Tunbridge ...
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In 1955 I was offered a two-year scholarship to Harvard University, to get my MA in English Literature. It was ...
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Whenever I am haunted by memories of the past, our house in JabalpurA city in the central Indian province of ...
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I do say that it is in my blood to run the Knight’s Fish & Chips Restaurant in Glastonbury. I ...
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I was travelling to Bangladesh for the first time in 2017. I told my mother that I was going for ...
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The is the second part of  the story about Joan's travel to Lyon After two or three days of complete ...
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The idea of the Blog developed while talking to Joan Duncan and reading her detailed account of living in London ...
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I was travelling by car from Jamshedpur to DurgapurDurgapur in the state of West Bengal is 180 kilometres north of ...
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My mother, Swarna Kumari (Beena) Roy Choudhury was the daughter of Professor Rajanikanta Guha, a well-known academic in Bengal, who ...
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I was one of 7 children and we lived with our Dad, Mom and Grandmother. My Dad was a very ...
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  I was born in October 1918. My mother lived in Exeter, Devon and I was 2 and a half ...
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The second part of her story on travels When things had settled down and I had bought a flat in ...
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In a two part story, June recollects her childhood, her adulthood and the adventures of travel It was Sunday morning ...
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 Sometime around 5.30 am when the sun rises in winter in Guwahati Assam, that precious time in the morning when ...
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I joined the British Navy at the age of 17 in 1944. I had lived with my parents in Markyate, ...
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Among the countless revolutionaries who participated in the struggle for Indian independence from British rule, many have become well known ...
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I had always been struck by the large portrait of a man, that hung over my grandmother’s sitting room. I ...
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Radio Moscow, which has now been renamed Voice of Russia, ran several interesting programmes, even if some involved propaganda. Programmes ...
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In a two part story, Irina recounts her growing up in Moscow and travels to India I was born to ...
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I joined Eastern Coalfields Ltd (a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, a government of India enterprise) The coal mines in India ...
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  Excerpts from an account by an Indian civil servant deputed to oversee rehabilitation of evacuees and distribution of relief ...
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My husband Neil C. Duncan’s maternal grandfather was Arthur Ramdin. Neil put together a brief biography of Arthur who clearly ...
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Sarada Charan Ukil, popularly known as Sarada Ukil, my maternal grandfather is something of a mythical figure to me. What ...
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My mother, Katrina was barely 10 when she was orphaned, her mother predeceasing her father by a few months. Born ...
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Till I was sent to a College Hostel in Darjeeling, I had never been away from the family. We lived ...
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Anonyma: Eine Frau in Berlin (known in the UK as `The downfall of Berlin Anonyma`) is a 2008 German film ...
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Jatindramohan Guha My great grandfather, Jatindramohan Guha  was the first in his village Qutubpur in the district of Faridpur in ...
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My father Richard Durell married Edmée Gruchy in Jersey on 21 December in 1934.    After marriage, Richard accepted a ...
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The beginning was difficult-I was in a traffic jam going to the airport! Would I get to the check-in in ...
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 My posting, after being commissioned in to the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army in 1967 following the Young ...
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Ever tried drinking gin by itself, no lime or tonic? If you haven’t, don’t. It’s sheer hell. Burns the gullet ...
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There had never been such excitement in the house. It was a hard-working and unforgiving life on this small HumbersideIn ...
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Throughout my mother’s life, she believed implicitly that she was a descendant of William Charles Macready (1793-1873), the great Shakespearian ...
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When I look back on my life I begin to wonder if I have achieved anything of consequence.  To my ...
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The passage of time has lent a surreal hue to the ghastly spine-chilling memories of 1984. Those who survived to ...
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I was very lucky to be loved and cared for by my grandparents for a very long span of my ...
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 It was unfortunate that the day our son Robert went to Harrods to buy a Christmas present for his father, ...
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It is a sunny October afternoon in Cambourne and I am looking through the window at my garden where a ...
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In October 1976 I and my ex-wife Chrissy went out to India to live the spiritual life. We had gone ...
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It was August 1965. My family lived in the army cantonment of Ferozepur, Punjab, in northern India. I was 10 ...
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The farmer peered out of his kitchen window at the hanging heads of corn, ripe and ready for the swift ...
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It was fortunate that Lilly was in the kitchen when the bomb went off. All the bay windows at the ...
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Me in WAAF, 1944 During World War Two I served in the WAAFsWomen’s Auxiliary Air Force was formed in 1939 ...
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 We as a family of four have been living in Adelaide for the last six months where we relocated from ...
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 I find it hard to believe that I was born only six years after the end of World War I; ...
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