It's the world's most dramatic border. A nation cruelly divided as the British quit the subcontinent in 1947. Portraits of ...

My earliest memory of Dashami (the last day of the Durga Puja festivities) is sitting on the terrace under the ...

“I will return here once more, by the bank of Dhansiri, to this Bengal”  Jibananda Das          ...

When I joined Bird & Co. in 1960, there were 8 jute mills under its control. One of the mills, ...

She was born in Calcutta Medical College on November 15 1933, past midnight, the sixth child of Hemlata Basu. Her ...

Still, I was in search of something more, something concrete, something material. Last October, I walked on the trail of ...

Just after the Sino-Indian War of 1962, about 3,000 Chinese-Indians Chinese migration to India began from the end of the ...

Sreenibas, the house on Morabadi Hills in Ranchi,  was built by my parents-in law, Dr. Woopendra Chowdhry and Sreemati Asoka ...

 I was around 9 or 10 when I first learnt that my mother’s thakurma (paternal grandmother) hailed from Assam, not ...

I wasn’t the midnight’s child, arriving three weeks later in 1947 when India was in the cusp of transition; many ...

Following is Suprobhat Bhattacharya's story about what she had to endure while her husband was incarcerated: In 1961 we were ...

My parents were married in December 1934.  As a wedding present they received a portrait of my mother from my ...