A Sweet Little Dolly
She was born in Calcutta Medical College on November 15 1933, past midnight, the sixth child of Hemlata Basu. Her ...
Looking for my Ancient Religion in Uzbekistan
Still, I was in search of something more, something concrete, something material. Last October, I walked on the trail of ...
The Deoliwallahs: The untold account of the Chinese-Indians
Just after the Sino-Indian War of 1962, about 3,000 Chinese-Indians Chinese migration to India began from the end of the ...
The Couple Who Built Sreenibas
Sreenibas, the house on Morabadi Hills in Ranchi, was built by my parents-in law, Dr. Woopendra Chowdhry and Sreemati Asoka ...
The Assamese Connection: Bishnupriya, Gunabhiram and Swarnalata
I was around 9 or 10 when I first learnt that my mother’s thakurma (paternal grandmother) hailed from Assam, not ...
Daddy: A Man of Many Moods
I wasn’t the midnight’s child, arriving three weeks later in 1947 when India was in the cusp of transition; many ...
The Turn of the Wheel: Suprobhat’s Story
Following is Suprobhat Bhattacharya's story about what she had to endure while her husband was incarcerated: In 1961 we were ...
The Adventures of a Portrait
My parents were married in December 1934. As a wedding present they received a portrait of my mother from my ...
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 ...
He Died Young …
He was my younger brother, the youngest amongst all our cousins. But the one with the largest heart and the ...
The Green Notebook
A designed paper -green, a tad shade of blue- sticks to the cardboard cover, torn at the edges and frayed ...
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 ...
