The year is 1936.  The Dutta family from Sylhet ( then undivided India, now part of Bangladesh )  were proud ...

My love for Noor JahanMughal Queen married to the fourth Emperor Jehangir.  She was his last wife. She died in ...

I traveled  to Belgrade in February carrying the information that a first time visitor to the city would normally have ...

The penchant for witnessing a traditional ’bonedi-bari’An aristocratic home, associated with traditionally refined landowning familiesDurga pujaThe autumnal festival dedicated to ...

Smile - and the world smiles with you. Grieve - and you grieve alone. These had been the words I had ...

I have always been proud to be my Baba’s daughter. I do not have his  outstanding intellect or his ability ...

In 1946, a year before the Partition and Independence of India, I was a young seven year old girl living ...

“I will return here once more, by the bank of Dhansiri, to this Bengal”  Jibananda Das          ...

She was born in Calcutta Medical College on November 15 1933, past midnight, the sixth child of Hemlata Basu. Her ...

Still, I was in search of something more, something concrete, something material. Last October, I walked on the trail of ...