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The House I Was Born In
I often reminisce about my childhood, full of happy memories, not unusual for someone in her twilight years. In December ...
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He Died Young …
He was my younger brother, the youngest amongst all our cousins. But the one with the largest heart and the ...
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The Green Notebook and Bengal’s Many Pasts
A designed paper -green, a tad shade of blue- sticks to the cardboard cover, torn at the edges and frayed ...
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Who is the Baro Babu?
Sitting down at my desk in the new office. I opened the dak(mail) file to find a flaming pink notice staring ...
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Childhood Memories and Tales from the Past
This is written by Late Lt. Col. G.L.Bhattacharya in 1978 when he was 60. It has been translated from Bengali ...
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My Earliest Memory
Anagha, my daughter, told me yesterday her oldest memory is of me giving her lunch. She remembers me giving her ...
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My Daddy, Strongest
I’ve been thinking of my father a lot, of late. It’s been ten years since he’s been gone and he ...
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A Trail of Blood…And Spy Tales!
This is a page out of Lady Hardinge Medical College memories in New Delhi in the late 1960s. We were ...
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The Turn of Wheel: a Spiritual Sojourn
This is a continuation of Part I At about 4.30 p.m. on 4 April 1961,4th April was the date of ...
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The Turn of the Wheel
As I look back on my past, I feel as if a firm, gentle, powerful Hand had moulded the events ...
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The Chhattisgarh Conundrum
This incident took place in Chhattisgarh way back in 2006. Chhattisgarh attained statehood after it was carved out of the large ...
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Mejda: The brother I admired most
My son Pradip asked me to write down what I remember of my Mejda (second elder brother) Sukumar Chatterjee. So, ...