It was Anita’s first day as a boarder. She had never ever been away from her family. Her day had ...

In 2010 I was working as an External Fellow of MAKAIASMaulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta and ...

My father, Pranab Guha Thakurta, was born on 19th March, 1926, in Dacca. I have kept to the earlier English ...

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

The dreary day lent itself well to our looming task. We drove, four college students, up a snaking drive littered ...

One day our friend Tatyana who arranges guided tours in Moscow called us to ask if we would be interested ...

Some years ago, I bought a plot of land in Prantik, a locality just beyond Tagore's Viswabharati University in Santiniketan, ...

Jan 21, 2016. It was an ordinary day in the office until I got a call from my sister in ...

On a recent trip to Bangladesh, she finally found the answer to the much asked question. Having been born and ...

An image of my parents -in-law that’s never ceased to inspire me - a picture of Sharad Pandya who was ...

I first met Professor Pabitra Kumar Maitra on 2 April 2003. I had just started my interviews with Obaid Siddiqi, ...

Bilqis Here's a, sadly blurry, picture of a painting that hung in my hotel room in San'a.  Now, this may ...