Many of our Bengali acquaintances in America have left for the other world one after another and the latest to join the journey is Sujan-Da (Sujan Dasgupta), who breathed his last on January 18 at his South Kolkata residence. I am stunned and shocked to hear
Dr Partha Bandyopadhyay distributes leaflets at New York's Chinatown The lights on the towering Hewett and Manchester Residence Halls shine in the dark. A red beacon blinks atop the 27-floor dormitory Waterson Towers. The skies here are somehow too clear. Not a speck of dust anywhere.
A year passed as an exile. Classes all day, laboratory classes with undergrads twice a week, coming home to whatever meals I could rustle up. There was no telling what I would eat. The first semester, I would eat potato chips with rice. What else
Dr. Partha Banerjee is speaking on labour education A year after I set foot in Illinois State University (ISU) in the American Midwest in 1985, Mukti joined me in August 1986, as a result of sustained efforts, a slew of permissions, and signing endless bits of
They’ve just wheeled Mukti into the surgery ward. My wife, on a stretcher pushed along by a few unfamiliar women. Nurses. Wearing operation theatre caps and surgical robes. Their eyes reflect the emergency. Serious, very serious eyes. Mukti is completely unconscious. She doesn’t know what is