Category: Family Histories
Category: Family Histories
![Finding Graham](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ramesh-Datta-Grave-II-300x225.jpg?media=1670086848)
Finding Graham
The year is 1936. The Dutta family from Sylhet ( then undivided India, now part of Bangladesh ) were proud ...
![Love, Loss and Objects from the Past](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Love-Lost-II-286x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
Love, Loss and Objects from the Past
Smile - and the world smiles with you. Grieve - and you grieve alone. These had been the words I had ...
![My life with Baba](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Debabrata-M5-185x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
My life with Baba
I have always been proud to be my Baba’s daughter. I do not have his outstanding intellect or his ability ...
![The Tragedy of the Roy Choudhurys](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/My-father-Dr-Makhanlal-Roy-Choudhury-at-the-tomb-of-Mirza-Hindal-Baburs-son-Kabul-1959-MB.jpg?media=1670086848)
The Tragedy of the Roy Choudhurys
In 1946, a year before the Partition and Independence of India, I was a young seven year old girl living ...
![Bijoya: Sadness and Longing](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Durgapuja-image.jpg?media=1670086848)
Bijoya: Sadness and Longing
“I will return here once more, by the bank of Dhansiri, to this Bengal” Jibananda Das ...
![A Sweet Little Dolly](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/In-happier-times-Ma-in-Konark-1.jpg?media=1670086848)
A Sweet Little Dolly
She was born in Calcutta Medical College on November 15 1933, past midnight, the sixth child of Hemlata Basu. Her ...
![Looking for my Ancient Religion in Uzbekistan](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/meher_site_1593118522-300x169.jpg?media=1670086848)
Looking for my Ancient Religion in Uzbekistan
Still, I was in search of something more, something concrete, something material. Last October, I walked on the trail of ...
![The Couple Who Built Sreenibas](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Srinivas.jpg?media=1670086848)
The Couple Who Built Sreenibas
Sreenibas, the house on Morabadi Hills in Ranchi, was built by my parents-in law, Dr. Woopendra Chowdhry and Sreemati Asoka ...
![The Assamese Connection: Bishnupriya, Gunabhiram and Swarnalata](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Swarnalata-212x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
The Assamese Connection: Bishnupriya, Gunabhiram and Swarnalata
I was around 9 or 10 when I first learnt that my mother’s thakurma (paternal grandmother) hailed from Assam, not ...
![Daddy: A Man of Many Moods](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Daddy-getting-his-commission-300x207.jpg?media=1670086848)
Daddy: A Man of Many Moods
I wasn’t the midnight’s child, arriving three weeks later in 1947 when India was in the cusp of transition; many ...