As I entered RP Gupta’s flat, I faced a slender man in a half-sleeved white vest and white pajamas, rocking in a chair, with books piled on a stool next to him.
While Sulochana (Ruby Myers 1907 – 1983) and Nadira (Florence Ezekiel 1932 – 2006) were Baghdadi Jewish girls from Pune and Bombay respectively, Esther Victoria Abraham (Pramila) and her cousin Rose who introduced Esther to film were from Calcutta.
There are dozens of ghats along the river with architecturally significant structures, evidence of the rich heritage of colonial Calcutta.
The house was once occupied by Pratap Chandra Ghosh who started his career as Assistant Librarian of the Asiatic Society.
However, before the turn of the decade he became a member of the Communist Party and was arrested as one of the conspirators in the Meerut Conspiracy Case.
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