Category: Human Interest
Category: Human Interest

A Trail of Blood…And Spy Tales!
This is a page out of Lady Hardinge Medical College memories in New Delhi in the late 1960s. We were ...

The Turn of Wheel: a Spiritual Sojourn
This is a continuation of Part I At about 4.30 p.m. on 4 April 1961,4th April was the date of ...

The Turn of the Wheel
As I look back on my past, I feel as if a firm, gentle, powerful Hand had moulded the events ...

Ghosts of Gracedale
The dreary day lent itself well to our looming task. We drove, four college students, up a snaking drive littered ...

Gandhi’s Children
An image of my parents -in-law that’s never ceased to inspire me - a picture of Sharad Pandya who was ...

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, ...

Bilqis, the Queen of Sheba-vignettes from Yemen II
Bilqis Here's a, sadly blurry, picture of a painting that hung in my hotel room in San'a. Now, this may ...

Caravanserai – vignettes from Yemen
Tower of Peace Trying to organize my generally messy life, I was working my way through some old boxes and ...

India, Torn (II) : A witness to history in the making
Continued from part I ...... Dad had been hearing about partition for quite some time. Finally it came to be ...