Jenny wants to Sing
The song draws to a close. We are a small group sitting, mostly cross legged, on the floor of a ...
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Bakshi Barir Pujo: An Old Custom and its Storied History
The penchant for witnessing a traditional ’bonedi-bari’An aristocratic home, associated with traditionally refined landowning familiesDurga pujaThe autumnal festival dedicated to ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Crossing the World’s Most Dramatic Border
It's the world's most dramatic border. A nation cruelly divided as the British quit the subcontinent in 1947. Portraits of ...
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Of festive feastings, not fastings
My earliest memory of Dashami (the last day of the Durga Puja festivities) is sitting on the terrace under the ...
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Bijoya: Sadness and Longing
“I will return here once more, by the bank of Dhansiri, to this Bengal” Jibananda Das ...
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Haunting Memories
When I joined Bird & Co. in 1960, there were 8 jute mills under its control. One of the mills, ...
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