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Of roots, connections and my ‘probashi-ty’

Last year, I went back to Varanasi, or Benaras as the locals call it (or Kashi as the Hindu scriptures call it), some thirty years after I last visited it. The idea was to reignite my connection with this ancient … Read the rest

Gin-and-Ice, No Lime

Sumita Sen 4 comments

Ever tried drinking gin by itself, no lime or tonic? If you haven’t, don’t. It’s sheer hell. Burns the gullet on the way down, then on the way up, and makes you a confirmed hater of men in general and

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Love Stories

Gold Rush

Janet Glasser 1 comment

There had never been such excitement in the house. It was a hard-working and unforgiving life on this small Humberside farm with everyone over the age of five expected to contribute. It was clear as the children grew up that

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The Macready Mystery

Joan Duncan No Comments

Throughout my mother’s life, she believed implicitly that she was a descendant of William Charles Macready (1793-1873), the great Shakespearian actor I was brought up in a house full of memorabilia, including copies of the Macready Diaries.

After my mother’s

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Crocodiles and Education

Judy Opitz No Comments

When I look back on my life I begin to wonder if I have achieved anything of consequence. To my sorrow I had borne no children but I had enjoyed a very fulfilling life in other ways, particularly in the

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1984: Thirty-Two Years Later

Payal S. Mohanka No Comments

The passage of time has lent a surreal hue to the ghastly spine-chilling memories of 1984.

Those who survived to tell the tale, wonder if that blood-curling violence truly played out. Or is it just a recurring nightmare?

The scars

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Human Interest

Life with my Grandparents

Ketaki Ray Chaudhuri No Comments

I was very lucky to be loved and cared for by my grandparents for a very long span of my life.

My paternal grandfather died at the age of ninety two in 1980. My grandmother passed away three years later.

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Family Histories

I.R.A. Activity in London – THE HARROD’S BOMBING

Marion Brown 2 comments

It was unfortunate that the day our son Robert went to Harrods to buy a Christmas present for his father, the IRA should choose the same day to try and blow up Harrods. Robert had bought the gift and left

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To be a butterfly

Rosario Davis 1 comment

It is a sunny October afternoon in Cambourne and I am looking through the window at my garden where a model of a large light blue butterfly is attached to the garage wall facing me, and where in the summer,

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Pastconnect

Of roots, connections and my ‘probashi-ty’

Gin-and-Ice, No Lime

Gold Rush

The Macready Mystery

Crocodiles and Education

1984: Thirty-Two Years Later

Life with my Grandparents

I.R.A. Activity in London – THE HARROD’S BOMBING

To be a butterfly

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