Milner Library - Illinois State University Soon after the American chapter of my academic career began at Illinois State University, I realised that I may have earned an MSc back home, and appeared as a pundit to the children of the rural college where I taught,
From Burrabazar to Bagbazar, Lake Market to ‘Fake’ Market, the gossip among those who knew us in Kolkata raged on about our extraordinary, impossible shift to America. But what were we doing in America? How were we spending our lives? I have already written about the
Along, hard journey later, exhausted and battle-weary, we came to New York to stay. Finally, we could talk about our terrible, dark times with a few American friends and well-wishers. When they had become pointless to talk about. Those we spoke to were the ones