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Devi and the Sword: The Biswas Story

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

“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

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

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

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

A Chittagong Childhood

The month of March, when a brief spring in Bengal blends into the first signs of summer, is always associated ...