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Jenny wants to Sing
The song draws to a close. We are a small group sitting, mostly cross legged, on the floor of a Tibetan Buddhist shrine room which […]
Bakshi Barir Pujo: An Old Custom and its Storied History
The penchant for witnessing a traditional ’bonedi-bari’Durga puja in recent years probably arises out of a desire to savour our cultural past, mingled with nostalgia. […]
An Iconoclast, a trailblazer, my mother Padma
She is an iconoclast, a trailblazer and a lot of things put together. She is also my mother. Fifty years ago, when women in India […]
Love, Loss and Objects from the Past
Smile – and the world smiles with you. Grieve – and you grieve alone. These had been the words I had somehow memorized in my childhood […]
The Mere Tale of an Er….
'Everyone thinks that they have the best dog and none of them is wrong' On one rainy day, the tiny tots of the family caught […]
Fight, My Beloved Country
Call it a woman’s intuition, but for a week I had been fearful that something was about to happen. I spoke about my apprehensions to […]
My life with Baba
I have always been proud to be my Baba’s daughter. I do not have his outstanding intellect or his ability to burn the midnight oil, […]
The Tragedy of the Roy Choudhurys
In 1946, a year before the Partition and Independence of India, I was a young seven year old girl living in Calcutta with my family. […]
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