By the time I reached home, social media was replete with, “Averee is no more.”
Artiste Sanjeet Chowdhury’s flat on Kolkata’s NSC Bose Road, Tollygunge, is in a mess. The room is in the process of painting. As such, the
I was familiar with every bit of it. The green mountains, the rainforest, the blue horizon and beautiful Assamese people. It was in the month
I try not to think/Of the setting sun by the Mediterranean/And the New York Times bestseller/On my chest/ like a baby clinging to her mother’s
She preferred sitting on my chair when I placed one of her zabutons on it for my own use. She was generous, and didn’t mind
My mirror has the shape of a Greek lyre. Its frame is back-to-back swan-like inverted S’s of painted black wood. Bas-reliefs of golden laurel leaves
It was September of 1977. This forty-five-year-old memory is as fresh in my mind as if it happened last month. Indeed, do I remember what
End of summer, back to school!!! As the morning broke today with the call of the alarm clock (lazy for three full months), there was
I was listening to a CD of an old Joni Mitchell album, and it soon turned out I was playing an awkward historian’s joke on
Just like happiness, sadness is also a part of your life, Mumma tells them. So every night Ujaan and Didi tell Mumma their happy part
Their party of nine was quite an interesting bunch. Didan was the eldest member of the team. She was eighty-one, and Ujaan the youngest member
I would often wander through the open front door and stand in the hollow rooms and gaze at the stains on the whitewashed walls where
For every individual, a scent and the memories it conjures is a unique story to tell. For many residents who have lived long enough in
And the time was just before our Half-Yearly (Mid-Term) Exams. Thus, we were busy with exam preparation rather than participating in Birthday festivities.
Some of my happiest memories revolve around Berhampore, Murshidabad, where my grandparents lived. My cousins and I would spend our vacations there and were up
Ours was a messy expanse where wildflowers, bougainvillea and rambling roses grew in abandon
