Category: Family Histories
Category: Family Histories
![The Adventures of a Portrait](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Edmee-Gruchy-Dec-1934-229x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
The Adventures of a Portrait
My parents were married in December 1934. As a wedding present they received a portrait of my mother from my ...
![The House I Was Born In](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-House-that-Dadu-built.jpg?media=1670086848)
The House I Was Born In
I often reminisce about my childhood, full of happy memories, not unusual for someone in her twilight years. In December ...
![He Died Young ...](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Bubai-I-168x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
He Died Young …
He was my younger brother, the youngest amongst all our cousins. But the one with the largest heart and the ...
![The Green Notebook and Bengal's Many Pasts](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Notebook.jpg?media=1670086848)
The Green Notebook and Bengal’s Many Pasts
A designed paper -green, a tad shade of blue- sticks to the cardboard cover, torn at the edges and frayed ...
![Childhood Memories and Tales from the Past](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Bakikakakas-GLB.jpg?media=1670086848)
Childhood Memories and Tales from the Past
This is written by Late Lt. Col. G.L.Bhattacharya in 1978 when he was 60. It has been translated from Bengali ...
![My Daddy, Strongest](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mohuas-Baba_PC_9-202x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
My Daddy, Strongest
I’ve been thinking of my father a lot, of late. It’s been ten years since he’s been gone and he ...
![Mejda: The brother I admired most](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Sukumar-Chatterjee-146x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
Mejda: The brother I admired most
My son Pradip asked me to write down what I remember of my Mejda (second elder brother) Sukumar Chatterjee. So, ...
![From Raj to Freedom](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Milumashi-and-parents-197x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
From Raj to Freedom
As a child in British India, Bharati Dutt lived a privileged and sheltered life in an extended joint family of ...
![Our Thamma : The Life and Times of a Romantic](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Thamma-210x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
Our Thamma : The Life and Times of a Romantic
By Anwita Basu & Deeptanshu Basu As romance brews in the air of 19th century Britain with women dressed in ...
![Trailing the Silk Route: The Biswas Villa](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Abinash-Ch.-Biswas-Family-1.jpg?media=1670086848)
Trailing the Silk Route: The Biswas Villa
Click here to read PART1 of this story The entire family left Murshidabad overnight, leaving behind everything- enormous property, their ...