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 ...

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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 ...

My father, Pranab Guha Thakurta, was born on 19th March, 1926, in Dacca. I have kept to the earlier English ...

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

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

Jan 21, 2016. It was an ordinary day in the office until I got a call from my sister in ...