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My father’s gardens
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
Manjula Mathur was born to Bengali parents in Kolkata on 29th May 1955. Her father was an Indian Army doctor, and her mother a home-maker. She travelled extensively in India with her parents, and lived ... Monday, 01 April 2019 -
August 1947 – Azadi (Freedom)
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... were dying like flies. People from the West Punjab and also from East Bengal at the far end had suffered most, but those, who escaped death from the hands of blood-thirsty `demons' and their sharp shining ... Friday, 08 February 2019 -
Family photo album – B K Chatterji
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... in Allahabad University. The Chatterjee family was one of the leading probasi Bengali families of Allahabad. Birendra (or, Biru as he was known to relatives and close friends) did his schooling and University ... Wednesday, 12 December 2018 -
Dasara in Mysuru: Then and Now
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... as Maharajas under monarchy. Now, under democracy, it is the politicians in power who control everything. Now the capital is Bengaluru in a larger state of Karnataka. Mercifully Dasara continues to be ... Saturday, 17 November 2018 -
Memories of my Ferozepur and my mother
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... I think Karuna was from Maratha, her younger sister Kamla, Bengal, I from Dravin, and Bhupi, came as a Parsi since we had a full version of the song describing people too. Unfortunately, our carefree ... Wednesday, 19 September 2018 -
The gap months between high school and college
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... in eastern India: food production at historic lows the Bihar-north Bengal famine due to severe droughts in the past two years communal riots and the constant hartals and strikes in May ... Thursday, 16 August 2018 -
From Lacchmangarh to Tezpur: The Bagaria Family of Assam
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... more, by train or a combination of train (up to Calcutta) and then by steamer up the mighty Brahmaputra river passing through the eastern region of Bengal (which came to be known as East Pakistan after ... Tuesday, 10 April 2018 -
Growing up in a Punjabi Town
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... home. Ask any Bengali. A Gujarati School On a hot May afternoon in 1958, along with my brother and sisters, I was admitted into Sardar Patel Vidyalaya. It was barely a year old and admission was ... Tuesday, 06 March 2018 -
Who was that visitor?
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... diary in the 2002. It has been typed and provided by her son in 2018. When we were in Bhopal in the early 1970s, a friend of ours [likely this was Tarun Kumar Bhaduri, who wrote a book in Bengali Abhishapath ... Saturday, 03 March 2018 -
The Allahabad and its people that I remember
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... were all in Allahabad at that time. Apart from these, some very well known Bengali families also used to live there. Among the Bengali families, I remember the Mukherjees (Justice Basudeb Mukherjee, ... Wednesday, 28 February 2018 -
My great-grandfather: the Dewan of Pratapgarh and Barrister-at-Law
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... Provinces of Agra and Oudh.. The decision of the British Government to divide Bengal into two provinces brought about a very strong opposition by the Bengalis, and their agitation spread in most of ... Thursday, 08 February 2018 -
My father – a leading lawyer in Burma
Category: Stories/Stories About Men
... for reading from her childhood. It survived through her life. She grew up to be a widely read woman with an enviable collection of good literature in Bengali, which she brought back to India and passed ... Saturday, 25 November 2017 -
My College Days Memories—Sweet &Sour, Cardinal leaving their Ghosla in New Delhi going to Blue Jay Ghosla at Johns Hopkins Univ.
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... his respect to elders (touched my mother's feet in Delhi). Shiv was a great companion going to Bengali market in Delhi, for chaat, gol guppas and movies. I used to walk from India Gate to his house in ... Wednesday, 08 November 2017 -
L’Oréal vs Sohan Lal & Gopi: Champayee! Tel Maalish
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... white shaving brushes. Run by Gopi. Over the years, Gopi added Afghan Snow face cream and Himalaya Talc powder. And a few Bengali tels (oils) and strong perfumes. The ubiquitous fitkari crystal(alum) ... Saturday, 07 October 2017 -
My School Days at St. Paul’s and Burma through Turbulent Times
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... I began to accept it as a reality I had to come to terms with. Speech Day, 1963, St. Paul's, Darjeeling. I am receiving a prize from Shrimati Padmaja Naidu, Governor of West Bengal. Mr. Leslie Goddard, ... Thursday, 31 August 2017 -
My grandparents, my parents, and I
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... at United World College, Dilijan. Mandalai, where I was born, was a quaint village fringed onto the outskirts of an equally small town in rural Bengal. Pandua, the nearby town, has a claim to connections ... Friday, 25 August 2017 -
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