Category: Family Histories

Category: Family Histories

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought,  I summon up remembrance of things past"

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past”

First of a two part narration of family history and childhood memories I start writing the memoirs of my childhood ...
A Dacca Childhood

A Dacca Childhood

My father, Pranab Guha Thakurta, was born on 19th March, 1926, in Dacca. I have kept to the earlier English ...
A Chittagong Childhood

A Chittagong Childhood

The month of March, when a brief spring in Bengal blends into the first signs of summer, is always associated ...
Hermit and the Householder:  Khirode Chandra Roy Chowdhury

Hermit and the Householder: Khirode Chandra Roy Chowdhury

Some years ago, I bought a plot of land in Prantik, a locality just beyond Tagore's Viswabharati University in Santiniketan, ...
Memories of Mama

Memories of Mama

Jan 21, 2016. It was an ordinary day in the office until I got a call from my sister in ...
Where do you come from?

Where do you come from?

On a recent trip to Bangladesh, she finally found the answer to the much asked question. Having been born and ...
Memory and Difficult Emotions: Notes of an Oral Historian

Memory and Difficult Emotions: Notes of an Oral Historian

I first met Professor Pabitra Kumar Maitra on 2 April 2003. I had just started my interviews with Obaid Siddiqi, ...
Memories of the Matriarch

Memories of the Matriarch

When I look back on my earliest memories of childhood, I always see my all-white sari clad, completely unadorned, hair ...
My Nima-A portrait in White

My Nima-A portrait in White

 Whenever I think of my Grandma, the first thing that comes to mind is how beautiful she was -slim, without ...
Coming Home: Happiness, at last

Coming Home: Happiness, at last

The final episode in Susan's quest: Armed with Peter Stewart's name, I persisted with my search with the full support ...
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