Category: Family Histories

Category: Family Histories

Of Aunts, Nieces and School Mistresses

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’

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

Celebrating the Life of My Grandmother: A Legacy of Muhibbah

                          ‘We are but only fragile threads, but ...
Boro Bari: The Big House

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bijoya: Sadness and Longing

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