Category: Family Histories
Category: Family Histories
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 ...
A Sweet Little Dolly
She was born in Calcutta Medical College on November 15 1933, past midnight, the sixth child of Hemlata Basu. Her ...
Looking for my Ancient Religion in Uzbekistan
Still, I was in search of something more, something concrete, something material. Last October, I walked on the trail of ...