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

She was born in Calcutta Medical College on November 15 1933, past midnight, the sixth child of Hemlata Basu. Her ...

Still, I was in search of something more, something concrete, something material. Last October, I walked on the trail of ...

Sreenibas, the house on Morabadi Hills in Ranchi,  was built by my parents-in law, Dr. Woopendra Chowdhry and Sreemati Asoka ...

 I was around 9 or 10 when I first learnt that my mother’s thakurma (paternal grandmother) hailed from Assam, not ...

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

My parents were married in December 1934.  As a wedding present they received a portrait of my mother from my ...

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

He was my younger brother, the youngest amongst all our cousins. But the one with the largest heart and the ...

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