Kolkata has been the city of dreams of my childhood and continues to be so until now.
Life in Ganderia was most engaging and colourful. I had developed friendship with a number of local kids of my age.
25th March 1971. We left our old DOHS house just fifteen minutes before midnight.
I'm not a very emotional memory trotter, and I prefer to not be one. But, despite saying so, all the wonderful gifts of lessons that I had received from my guru, I treasure them, relish them, chew on them, brush them and whole heartedly respect and love them.
Dhaka then was considered the happening place, One afternoon Baba came back from his office and said that he was under order of transfer to Dhaka.
Mornings were glorious in the small towns of the then Bangladesh, with birds chirping, the hawkers' hawking and the most endearing voices of the servants waking us up, washing and dressing us to start the day anew.
It was a winter morning in Meherpur, then a subdivision under the district of Nodia, just before the partition of Bengal.
On August 1 1971, former Beatles' member George Harrison and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar organised two benefit concerts...
A Hollywood filmmaker who made non-Hollywood movies, Robert Altman earned five Oscar nominations over his long and independent-minded career, eventually winning an honorary Oscar in 2006 for his body of work.
