Category: Human Interest

Category: Human Interest

The Turn of Wheel: a Spiritual Sojourn

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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

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 ...
India, Torn (I):   Haunting Memories

India, Torn (I): Haunting Memories

KARACHI                                        ...
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 ...