A 70-Year Journey Through Passports
We all have our own journeys. We navigate the world through our unique lens of experiences.
My father navigated his by being a traveler. The best times of his life were when he was on a flight to a city
Of War and Peace: Bangladesh in 1972
Excerpts from an account by an Indian civil servant deputed to oversee rehabilitation of evacuees and distribution of relief materials to the war ravaged, recently independent Bangladesh.
7 p.m., 4th April 1972 at Nawabganj sub-division, Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. Clustered around
The Maharaja’s English Connection
My husband Neil C. Duncan’s maternal grandfather was Arthur Ramdin. Neil put together a brief biography of Arthur who clearly had non- English antecedent. The account goes as follows:
The Descendants of Arthur Marius Ramdin (1857-1925) and Rebecca Maria Brown
A Granddaughter’s tribute to the Artist, Sarada Ukil
Sarada Charan Ukil, popularly known as Sarada Ukil, my maternal grandfather is something of a mythical figure to me. What is real are his art works that he left behind, some of the original which I have seen and many
Katrina: A Latvian Tale
My mother, Katrina was barely 10 when she was orphaned, her mother predeceasing her father by a few months. Born in the village of Dunika in western Latvia, she had been a symbol of God’s special favour to her mother … Read the rest
My Grandmother’s Daughter
Till I was sent to a College Hostel in Darjeeling, I had never been away from the family. We lived as a joint family in the foothill town of Siliguri and I was always … Read the rest
Anonyma: A lady on the train
Anonyma: Eine Frau in Berlin (known in the UK as `The downfall of Berlin Anonyma`) is a 2008 German film about an unnamed woman coping with the complex aftermath of the war in 1945. Anonyma is what I choose to
The Guhas of Brooking Street
My great grandfather, Jatindramohan Guha was the first in his village Qutubpur in the district of Faridpur in East Bengal (present Bangladesh) to venture, after completing his studies, as far as Rangoon, the capital of Burma in the 1910s. It
From Jersey, Channel Islands, to the African Continent
My father Richard Durell married Edmée Gruchy in Jersey on 21 December in 1934.
After marriage, Richard accepted a job in the Bank of British West Africa as he had previously been in banking in London. He was able to