Category: Human Interest
Category: Human Interest

A 70-Year Journey Through Passports
Passport of Indian Empire We all have our own journeys. We navigate the world through our unique lens of experiences ...

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 ...

Latex and Love: A Mother’s Contribution to the Nation
In the early 1970s, in the small town of Jenjarom in Banting, life was simple yet full ...

Jenny wants to Sing
The song draws to a close. We are a small group sitting, mostly cross legged, on the floor of a ...

The Mere Tale of an Er….
'Everyone thinks that they have the best dog and none of them is wrong' On one rainy day, the tiny ...

Crossing the World’s Most Dramatic Border
It's the world's most dramatic border. A nation cruelly divided as the British quit the subcontinent in 1947. Portraits of ...

Of festive feastings, not fastings
My earliest memory of Dashami (the last day of the Durga Puja festivities) is sitting on the terrace under the ...

The Deoliwallahs: The untold account of the Chinese-Indians
Just after the Sino-Indian War of 1962, about 3,000 Chinese-Indians Chinese migration to India began from the end of the ...

The Turn of the Wheel: Suprobhat’s Story
Following is Suprobhat Bhattacharya's story about what she had to endure while her husband was incarcerated: In 1961 we were ...

Who is the Baro Babu?
Sitting down at my desk in the new office. I opened the dak(mail) file to find a flaming pink notice staring ...