After birth of our daughter we stood at the back of the house My score of 45 out of 100 in my first Cell Biology exam had come as a big blow. Sitting in our room behind closed doors, Ranjan and I soothed our feelings by
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
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
“The Bangladesh Liberation War, also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in what was then East Pakistan during the 1971
By common consensus, the world entered the nuclear era with the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Every year, August 6 is observed as Hiroshima Day, and everyone who hasn’t lived in a cave for the past seven decades knows that the atom bomb dropped on