A Legacy of Stories

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

From Biswajit Basu: When I was in school, every Pujo, Sujit Bagchi, a neighbour's son would come home and sometimes dress up in unifor...

Blogger Note: When I was a child, I called him Mama Ship! So, where did his journey begin? From Biswajit Basu: I cannot remember my first s...

From Biswajit Basu: An unusual story was once related to me by Mr Henk Pols, one of our Directors who was a ship's officer in the Dutch...

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 Biswajit Basu: MY FIRST SEA VOYAGE  I can still remember. It was July 1955 on a hot, sunny and humid afternoon. I was at the Ballard ...