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
