When Rabindranath Tagore wrote Shesher Kobita while visiting South India in 1928, he devoted 13 of the 17 chapters to a Shillong backdrop where Jogamaya’s house is modelled on Brookside
Big Story A once and scattered weave Identity politics is the most bandied about word this season. Politicians love it, strategists rock it, analysts roll it. But the people, they live it, for generations. The Sylhet story Upala Sen | | Published 18.04.21, 12:44 AM
I discovered the ochre book, which no one claimed to have brought home, sometime in the early months of the lockdown. A word on the cover beckoned. Sylhet. I recognised it from the long departed grandparents’ reminiscings; one of many names Dhaka, Barisal, Comilla, Poyogram. Places I have never been to and know little about, but places that are settings to stories that are my legacy.