The Guhas of Brooking Street
My great grandfather, Jatindramohan Guha was the first in his village Qutubpur in the district of Faridpur in East Bengal ...
From Jersey, Channel Islands, to the African Continent
My father Richard Durell married Edmée Gruchy in Jersey on 21 December in 1934. After marriage, Richard accepted ...
The Journey
The beginning was difficult-I was in a traffic jam going to the airport! Would I get to the check-in in ...
The Lost Innocence Of The Nagas
My posting, after being commissioned in to the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army in 1967 following the Young ...
Gin-and-Ice, No Lime
Ever tried drinking gin by itself, no lime or tonic? If you haven’t, don’t. It’s sheer hell. Burns the gullet ...
The Macready Mystery
Throughout my mother’s life, she believed implicitly that she was a descendant of William Charles Macready (1793-1873), the great Shakespearian ...
Crocodiles and Education
When I look back on my life I begin to wonder if I have achieved anything of consequence. To my ...
1984: Thirty-Two Years Later
The passage of time has lent a surreal hue to the ghastly spine-chilling memories of 1984. Those who survived to ...
Life with my Grandparents
I was very lucky to be loved and cared for by my grandparents for a very long span of my ...
I.R.A. Activity in London – THE HARROD’S BOMBING
It was unfortunate that the day our son Robert went to Harrods to buy a Christmas present for his father, ...
To be a butterfly
It is a sunny October afternoon in Cambourne and I am looking through the window at my garden where a ...