Ghosts of Gracedale
The dreary day lent itself well to our looming task. We drove, four college students, up a snaking drive littered ...
Old Wisdom Dies Hard
One day our friend Tatyana who arranges guided tours in Moscow called us to ask if we would be interested ...
Hermit and the Householder: Khirode Chandra Roy Chowdhury
Some years ago, I bought a plot of land in Prantik, a locality just beyond Tagore's Viswabharati University in Santiniketan, ...
Memories of Mama
Jan 21, 2016. It was an ordinary day in the office until I got a call from my sister in ...
Where do you come from?
On a recent trip to Bangladesh, she finally found the answer to the much asked question. Having been born and ...
Gandhi’s Children
An image of my parents -in-law that’s never ceased to inspire me - a picture of Sharad Pandya who was ...
Memory and Difficult Emotions: Notes of an Oral Historian
I first met Professor Pabitra Kumar Maitra on 2 April 2003. I had just started my interviews with Obaid Siddiqi, ...
Bilqis, the Queen of Sheba-vignettes from Yemen II
Bilqis Here's a, sadly blurry, picture of a painting that hung in my hotel room in San'a. Now, this may ...
Caravanserai – vignettes from Yemen
Tower of Peace Trying to organize my generally messy life, I was working my way through some old boxes and ...
Memories of the Matriarch
When I look back on my earliest memories of childhood, I always see my all-white sari clad, completely unadorned, hair ...
India, Torn (II) : A witness to history in the making
Continued from part I ...... Dad had been hearing about partition for quite some time. Finally it came to be ...
