Category: Historical

Category: Historical

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, ...
From Raj to Freedom

From Raj to Freedom

As a child in British India, Bharati Dutt lived a privileged and sheltered life in an extended joint family of ...
Our Thamma : The Life and Times of a Romantic

Our Thamma : The Life and Times of a Romantic

By  Anwita Basu & Deeptanshu Basu As romance brews in the air of  19th century Britain with women dressed in ...
Trailing the Silk Route: The Biswas Villa

Trailing the Silk Route: The Biswas Villa

Click here to read PART1 of this story The entire family left Murshidabad overnight, leaving behind everything- enormous property, their ...
Devi and the Sword: The Biswas Story

Devi and the Sword: The Biswas Story

It was in 1972. We were going by train from Durgapur in West Bengal to our ancestral place, Srinagar in ...
Traversing Geographies of Memory-Interviewing family members

Traversing Geographies of Memory-Interviewing family members

Interviewing family members is messy. The interview does not stay confined to the questions one asks. Indeed, it spills into ...
A Woman of Substance II

A Woman of Substance II

Continued from part  1 A Dream Come True Connecting with the past is surely an ongoing process, for an individual’s ...
A Woman of Substance

A Woman of Substance

First of the two part memoirs of an extraordinary woman and mother Connecting with the Past On a cold January ...