Witnessing The Horrors Of Post-Independence India As A Child – An Excerpt From Fifty Year Road by Bhaskar Roy

I. Their younger days spent in political activism, my parents knew many prominent personalities in Calcutta. One day in 1964, Ma took me to Dr Nikhil Ranjan Roy, a well-known educationist, for my initiation in learning. In Bengali, it’s called *haate-khori*, literally putting a chalk stick (*khori*) in the child’s hand (*haate*) to write the… Continue reading Witnessing The Horrors Of Post-Independence India As A Child – An Excerpt From Fifty Year Road by Bhaskar Roy