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Pre-Partition Punjab Vignettes
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... least. Bengal had District Collector who was the counterpart of the Punjab's Deputy Commissioner (DC). The DC was the civil head of the administration. But was not the boss pf the District and Sessions ... Sunday, 20 August 2017 -
My paternal grandparents and family
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... factory. There was already a factory running in Calcutta, and he wanted to see how it was working. So he went with a friend wearing ordinary Bengali clothes. He came back and started a sulphuric acid factory ... Sunday, 20 August 2017 -
Channo’s mother and her boys
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... national newspapers carried the headlines, "The Communists give up violence." And the thin Bengali politician Jyoti Basu became a hero, as the Party president who had steered the party in a peaceful direction. ... Monday, 03 July 2017 -
A non-vegetarian life in the pre-1947 Punjab
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... he would ask us to remove the parcel - he would not touch it, as it was not Halaal. Is fish " vegetable"? We did not think so. But some Bengali acquaintances were fond of fish. They also claimed to be ... Sunday, 25 September 2016 -
A Son Remembers His Father
Category: Stories/Stories About Men
... Shield competition in Bengal in the late 1930s; the first non-sighted troop to do so. He received a British-Indian award, Kaiser-i-Hind, in 1942 for his work with the blind. In 1939, he won a scholarship ... Thursday, 22 September 2016 -
Chapter 11 Family life
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... contracted there was typhoid. TVB had come to know a Bengali gentleman in his office who was a practicing homoeopath. And for some time TVB used homoeo remedies for all of us. In fact, even when it was ... Saturday, 20 August 2016 -
Dreams of my mother Aruna(Dutt) Shah,1921-1989
Category: Stories/Stories About Women
... had been the Post-Master General of Bengal, an important civil service job. Yet, his pension and death benefits were not enough to sustain the young family in Calcutta. Nor was it of any advantage to be ... Thursday, 21 April 2016 -
First Steps in Life in Ranchi and Patna
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... Thevetia peruviana as it is native to Peru, South America. It's common name is Yellow Oleander, and in Bengal it is called Kolke for it's funnel shape flower) tree, tie a string to one end with a bent ... Saturday, 13 February 2016 -
No. 806, L/NK Sadhon Gopal Mukherjee (1900-1918)
Category: Stories/Stories About Men
... the 49 Bengal Regiment. Their war cry was abhi le Baghdad (take Baghdad now). Sadhon Gopal died in Mesopotamia during the war on 18 July 1918. His last letter to his elder brother, my father, was a ... Saturday, 13 February 2016 -
Childhood recollections: Deoghar
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... to celebrate the durga pooja (celebration of the mother goddess' annual visit to earth with her children, a major holiday in Bengal) at home. This was because our cousin Babuda had his leg plastered due ... Tuesday, 09 February 2016 -
Chapter3: Our staff members
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... and 3 perhaps -in the care of a co-tenant at Coimbatore, and came to work in our house. Russian and Bengalee novelists write poignantly of the poverty of those days. Real life was not very different! Money. ... Wednesday, 23 September 2015 -
Letters to my beloved Shadhona
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... and the Chatterjees were one of Allahabad's leading probasi Bengali families. Biru graduated from Allahabad University with Honours in Economics, topping his University class. He joined the Imperial ... Tuesday, 15 September 2015 -
Bou Dekha (Seeing the bride)
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... hand written in Bengali in 2010. This is a story of a Bou Dekha (seeing the new bride) party of a long time ago. I had forgotten about it till one day recently Kalpana di (older "sister") reminded ... Thursday, 27 August 2015 -
Memories of the 1940s
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... It was one of the worst times in the history of undivided West Bengal before Partition (1947). The Second World War was going on, and the Bengal was suffering from the great Bengal famine. There was ... Saturday, 22 August 2015 -
Memories of 1940s Campbellpore
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... Bengal Famine. It was of truly huge. Two to three million Bengalis died. Many more travelled all over India. Some even reached Cambellpore. I remember a poor shrivelled young lady with an equally shrivelled ... Saturday, 08 August 2015 -
My Grandfather, an Eminent Professor, and His Three Illustrious Sons
Category: Stories/Stories About Men
... garden at his ancestral home in Agra. My grandfather, Shri Beni Madhav Sarkar, was born in the 1870s in a well to do Bengali family of landlords. They grew Daab (coconut plants) in their fields ... Thursday, 02 July 2015 -
Independence (?) of the Reserve Bank of India
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... officer, asking Datar to come from Bombay (now Mumbai) to Calcutta to accompany Ambegaokar, where he was going to study the banking crisis in Bengal, in the wake of the Partition. Deshmukh complained ... Tuesday, 14 April 2015 -
Growing up in Mysore State
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... India even then. The military Southern Command is based in present day Bengaluru. My father used to be transferred every 3 years, and the family moved with him. We lived in Bangalore, transferred to ... Tuesday, 06 January 2015 -
Suresh Hiranand Kundanmal: A Martyr of INS Khukhri 1971
Category: Stories/Armed Forces Heroes
... was ADC to the Governor of West Bengal whilst I was appointed to the President's staff. We would often exchange funny stories of life as an ADC. Just before the 1971 war Suresh was appointed Navigation ... Saturday, 30 August 2014 -
Saklibai and her Family
Category: Stories/Stories About Women
... later part of the itinerary skirted through Bengal (including present day Bangladesh) with stays in Azimganj and Calcutta for several days. The next stop on the itinerary was the ill-fated 10-day visit ... Tuesday, 19 August 2014