A Legacy of Stories

From Biswajit Basu: Here is a story I missed telling earlier but I just remembered a few days back and told Tuki & Deepak: -------------...

One of the grand matriarch of our extended family is Arati Ghosh (Mawana-Noida-Bangalore). Her elder son, Partho Ghosh’s wedding is one of ...

From Biswajit Basu: These memories are from my early days in Marine College: While I was appointed to Garden Reach Workshops (GRW, which lat...

Warning: Some may find this post triggering. In many possible ways. You are warned.  One of the topics that always dominated conversation in...

The Quantum Indians Following this documentary, I (Biswajit Basu) have written to Prithvi (grandson) as follows: Prithvi.....I want you to...

(Picture from Monisha Choudhury’s collection. Place: Netaji Nagar. Sometime in the 1980-90s) In conversation with Biswajit Basu, to tell us...

LIFE I I look up at the starry firmament Heavenly stars dot the velvet curl of the sky, Trillions of planets, billions  of miles away Seemin...

We reached London in August 1955. It was probably the worst time in the year to go to the UK. We disembarked from SS Batory in Southampton a...

MY LIFE By Biswajit Basu ‘ Dedicated to my sister, Moon’ 1 I look past the drizzle on my window at the mellowed sun Mellowed by the decades ...

By Biswajit Basu: The *"Three Canal World Voyage"* There was one voyage that I passed through three major canals of the world and ...

Ever Given , one of the longest container ships in the world today, ran aground on the Suez Canal on March 23, 2021. One of the busiest ship...

By Biswajit Basu:  In the vast oceans of the world, it is rare to find a relative on a ship near yours. In my years at sea I only had one su...

By Biswajit Basu: A Ship in Stormy Seas The skies are as black, the winds wail a dirge,  The seas below roils in malevolent angry gray,  The...

A small poem on life's philosophy by Biswajit Basu TIME & FATE I have swaggered down the narrow path of life Peeping hither and thit...

By Biswajit Basu: On a ship, the three broad professions are Deck, Engine & Catering. Anyone not in these catogories is considered eccen...

Before settling down in Hauz Khas, Delhi; Monisha (Moon) Choudhury had quite a nomadic childhood. Here are some of her famous neighbors.  B...

Details of Biswajit Basu’s first ship posting are  here . In this post, we meet two of his first crew mates.  By Biswajit Basu: One more th...

By Biswajit Basu: How I was posted on my first ship I received a telegram in Delhi to report to our Calcutta Office of Scindia Steam Naviga...