Category: Human Interest

Category: Human Interest

Jenny wants to Sing

Jenny wants to Sing

The song draws to a close. We are a small group sitting, mostly cross legged, on the floor of a ...
The Mere Tale of an Er....

The Mere Tale of an Er….

'Everyone thinks that they have the best dog and none of them is wrong' On one rainy day, the tiny ...
Crossing the World's Most Dramatic Border

Crossing the World’s Most Dramatic Border

It's the world's most dramatic border. A nation cruelly divided as the British quit the subcontinent in 1947. Portraits of ...
Of festive feastings, not fastings

Of festive feastings, not fastings

My earliest memory of Dashami (the last day of the Durga Puja festivities) is sitting on the terrace under the ...
The Deoliwallahs: The untold account of the Chinese-Indians

The Deoliwallahs: The untold account of the Chinese-Indians

Just after the Sino-Indian War of 1962, about 3,000 Chinese-Indians Chinese migration to India began from the end of the ...
The Turn of the Wheel: Suprobhat's Story

The Turn of the Wheel: Suprobhat’s Story

Following is Suprobhat Bhattacharya's story about what she had to endure while her husband was incarcerated: In 1961 we were ...
Who is the Baro Babu?

Who is the Baro Babu?

Sitting down at my desk in the new office. I opened the dak(mail) file to find a flaming pink notice staring ...
My Earliest Memory

My Earliest Memory

Anagha, my daughter, told me yesterday her oldest memory is of me giving her lunch. She remembers me giving her ...
A Trail  of Blood…And Spy Tales!

A Trail of Blood…And Spy Tales!

This is a page out of Lady Hardinge Medical College memories in New Delhi in the late 1960s. We were ...
The Turn of Wheel: a Spiritual Sojourn

The Turn of Wheel: a Spiritual Sojourn

This is a continuation of Part I At about 4.30 p.m. on 4 April 1961,4th April was the date of ...
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