Category: Family Histories

Category: Family Histories

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hermit and the Householder:  Khirode Chandra Roy Chowdhury

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

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?

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 ...
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