It was in 1972. We were going by train from Durgapur in West Bengal to our ancestral place, Srinagar in ...

Interviewing family members is messy. The interview does not stay confined to the questions one asks. Indeed, it spills into ...

Continued from part  1 A Dream Come True Connecting with the past is surely an ongoing process, for an individual’s ...

First of the two part memoirs of an extraordinary woman and mother Connecting with the Past On a cold January ...

The next few months were a turmoil and the saddest period of our lives. Baba had not been keeping too ...

First of a two part narration of family history and childhood memories I start writing the memoirs of my childhood ...

In this second part, the author reconstructs her father's childhood in Dacca. Read the first part here My father, Pranab ...

The month of March, when a brief spring in Bengal blends into the first signs of summer, is always associated ...

One day our friend Tatyana who arranges guided tours in Moscow called us to ask if we would be interested ...

Some years ago, I bought a plot of land in Prantik, a locality just beyond Tagore's Viswabharati University in Santiniketan, ...