Category: Family Histories

Category: Family Histories

The Couple Who Built Sreenibas

The Couple Who Built Sreenibas

Sreenibas, the house on Morabadi Hills in Ranchi,  was built by my parents-in law, Dr. Woopendra Chowdhry and Sreemati Asoka ...
The Assamese Connection:  Bishnupriya, Gunabhiram and Swarnalata

The Assamese Connection: Bishnupriya, Gunabhiram and Swarnalata

 I was around 9 or 10 when I first learnt that my mother’s thakurma (paternal grandmother) hailed from Assam, not ...
Daddy: A Man of Many Moods

Daddy: A Man of Many Moods

I wasn’t the midnight’s child, arriving three weeks later in 1947 when India was in the cusp of transition; many ...
The Adventures of a Portrait

The Adventures of a Portrait

My parents were married in December 1934.  As a wedding present they received a portrait of my mother from my ...
The House I Was Born In

The House I Was Born In

I often reminisce about my childhood, full of happy memories, not unusual for someone in her twilight years. In December ...
He Died Young ...

He Died Young …

He was my younger brother, the youngest amongst all our cousins. But the one with the largest heart and the ...
The Green Notebook and Bengal's Many Pasts

The Green Notebook and Bengal’s Many Pasts

A designed paper -green, a tad shade of blue- sticks to the cardboard cover, torn at the edges and frayed ...
Childhood Memories and Tales from the Past

Childhood Memories and Tales from the Past

This is written by Late Lt. Col. G.L.Bhattacharya in 1978 when he was 60. It has been translated from Bengali ...
My Daddy, Strongest

My Daddy, Strongest

I’ve been thinking of my father a lot, of late. It’s been ten years since he’s been gone and he ...
Mejda: The brother I admired most

Mejda: The brother I admired most

My son Pradip asked me to write down what I remember of  my Mejda (second elder brother) Sukumar Chatterjee. So, ...