Smile – and the world smiles with you. Grieve – and you grieve alone.
These had been the words I had somehow memorized in my childhood when I first went to school. It was a school run by Catholic nuns. … Read the rest
Stories by Indrani Chatterjee
Indrani Chatterjee was born in a military hospital in Kolkata and went to school in different towns of the country. Every summer she and her brother were sent back to Habra to live with their cousins in the extended family centered on her widowed grandmother. So she learned to read, write and speak Bangla, as well as the skills of coexisting with people from different generations, educational and economic backgrounds. She currently teaches Indian history and lives in Austin, USA, with another historian for a husband, and loves listening to music, photography, and cooking.