Occult Occurrences
New Delhi An Internship is when we are the doctors in training. It is an extremely exciting and exhausting one ...
Traversing Geographies of Memory-Interviewing family members
Interviewing family members is messy. The interview does not stay confined to the questions one asks. Indeed, it spills into ...
A Woman of Substance II
Continued from part 1 A Dream Come True Connecting with the past is surely an ongoing process, for an individual’s ...
A Woman of Substance
First of the two part memoirs of an extraordinary woman and mother Connecting with the Past On a cold January ...
Ghosts Galore
I had my first confrontation with a ghost in the 1940’s. My family were staying with friends in the village ...
Nostalgia and Happy Memories
The next few months were a turmoil and the saddest period of our lives. Baba had not been keeping too ...
“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past”
First of a two part narration of family history and childhood memories I start writing the memoirs of my childhood ...
Those Horrible Nights
It was Anita’s first day as a boarder. She had never ever been away from her family. Her day had ...
The Bungalow in Kalimpong
In 2010 I was working as an External Fellow of MAKAIASMaulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta and ...
A Dacca Childhood
In this second part, the author reconstructs her father's childhood in Dacca. Read the first part here My father, Pranab ...
A Chittagong Childhood
The month of March, when a brief spring in Bengal blends into the first signs of summer, is always associated ...
Ghosts of Gracedale
The dreary day lent itself well to our looming task. We drove, four college students, up a snaking drive littered ...
