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 ...

Remembering Monisha Choudhury on her birthday, January 10. By Pallavi Choudhury Tripathi You would have been 69 today. Still can’t believe y...

While going through Mom’s (Monisha Choudhury) old photos, I came across this little gem on her Facebook.  (L-R: Anima Basu, MK Basu, Monisha...

By Asmita Basu (Toto): Here is my favourite story of MM (Moon Maashi aka Dr. Monisha Choudhury) for your collection.  I can’t remember the ...

By Biswajit Basu for Monisha Choudhury Moon you have  relinquished your worldly status and left your friends, relatives, students and collea...

When I first started this blog, I had no inkling Ma (Dr Monisha Choudhury) would leave us so soon. Her razor sharp recollection, memories of...

By Monisha Choudhury: My mother's (Anima Basu nee Dey) father was Basanta Kumar Dey and Grandmom Parimal Dey (nee Mitra), after whom the...

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

When I asked my uncle to corroborate my research in  this post , about ship toilets; this is how the conversation went.  By Biswajit Basu: I...

By Monisha Choudhury: After passing out of school in 1989, I did one year of pre-med in Deshbandhu College 1970-71. ISCE folks had to wait f...

By Biswajit Basu: In Russia during the communist days, bartering was the only way to regal survival. It was only 4 Roubles for a bottle of s...

From Monisha Choudhury: The year was 1973, when we shifted from the borrowed Chemistry block behind Vice Chancellor' s office of Delhi U...

From Biswajit Basu: My story about joining Marine Engineering College (DMET) went like this. I had appeared for 2 entrance exams and intervi...

From Monisha Choudhury: From my earliest sea voyages, I remember Gibralter and seeing people so close to us on land. I had the same experien...

Companion post to  My First Sea Voyage It was in the year 1957, that the Basu family travelled back home to India after two years in UK. Th...

 From Monisha Choudhury (Companion post to  Voyage of Misery ) It was in 1975. I was an Intern. All my classmates were preparing for USMLE ...