Category: Family Histories
Category: Family Histories

Of Aunts, Nieces and School Mistresses
I am flooded with memories of the original narrator of this story as I sit down to write. I can ...

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 ...

Celebrating the Life of My Grandmother: A Legacy of Muhibbah
‘We are but only fragile threads, but ...

Boro Bari: The Big House
Forty-odd years ago, I entered the "Boro Bari" through a nondescript door and stepped into a cool and dark hallway ...

Honouring the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Commemorating 67th Independence Day of the Federation of Malaya (31 August 1957) I am dedicated to capturing and preserving the ...

Finding Graham
The year is 1936. The Dutta family from Sylhet ( then undivided India, now part of Bangladesh ) were proud ...

Love, Loss and Objects from the Past
Smile - and the world smiles with you. Grieve - and you grieve alone. These had been the words I had ...

My life with Baba
I have always been proud to be my Baba’s daughter. I do not have his outstanding intellect or his ability ...

The Tragedy of the Roy Choudhurys
In 1946, a year before the Partition and Independence of India, I was a young seven year old girl living ...

Bijoya: Sadness and Longing
“I will return here once more, by the bank of Dhansiri, to this Bengal” Jibananda Das ...