Category: Family Histories
Category: Family Histories

Devi and the Sword: The Biswas Story
It was in 1972. We were going by train from Durgapur in West Bengal to our ancestral place, Srinagar in ...

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

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

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

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

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past”
First of a two part narration of family history and childhood memories I start writing the memoirs of my childhood ...

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

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

Hermit and the Householder: Khirode Chandra Roy Chowdhury
Some years ago, I bought a plot of land in Prantik, a locality just beyond Tagore's Viswabharati University in Santiniketan, ...

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