The Chhattisgarh Conundrum
This incident took place in Chhattisgarh way back in 2006. Chhattisgarh attained statehood after it was carved out of the large ...
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, ...
From Raj to Freedom
As a child in British India, Bharati Dutt lived a privileged and sheltered life in an extended joint family of ...
The Dream
Not long after my wedding in April 1971, I had to leave my wife, Malabika, with my parents and sisters ...
Our Thamma : The Life and Times of a Romantic
By Anwita Basu & Deeptanshu Basu As romance brews in the air of 19th century Britain with women dressed in ...
Trailing the Silk Route: The Biswas Villa
Click here to read PART1 of this story The entire family left Murshidabad overnight, leaving behind everything- enormous property, their ...
Devi and the Sword: The Biswas Story
It was in 1972. We were going by train from Durgapur in West Bengal to our ancestral place, Srinagar in ...
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 ...