Category Archives: Obituaries

Some Obituaries

Posted on January 5, 2021 by secondsaturn

That Saroj Khan will not live into her centenary was clear from her demeanour. She looked exhausted and harassed, puffed up in her face with a glassy glint in her eye and somehow communicated a feeling that somewhere the world … Continue reading →

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Abdul Kalam – A Joyous Death

Posted on August 14, 2015 by secondsaturn

My school friend, Debjani told me this hilarious story about her grandfather, a reporter with the Stateman who claimed that Gandhiji knew him. How come Dadu, my friend would ask to which the grandfather replied that once he nearly bumped … Continue reading →

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Autumn Without Mashi

Posted on July 22, 2014 by secondsaturn

My mother has an older and a younger sister of her own and yet she was the only one who I called Mashi; no proper noun as a prefix which I usually have for my mother’s friends. Just Mashi. Plain … Continue reading →

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Chronicles of a Life In Death Remembered

Posted on May 5, 2014 by secondsaturn

On the 20th April 2014, Sunday, at 11.30 pm my Jyathamoshai, known to all as Montu and to us as Jethu passed away in Chennai. Ma and I had just rushed in the last ten minutes of his being alive … Continue reading →

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PRDG At Shantiniketan

Posted on April 5, 2014 by secondsaturn

My father, who had never had to build his own house, having inherited a largish mansion from his father, my grandfather, decided that he indeed needed to have his own space and built a tiny but a picturesque cottage off … Continue reading →

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The Life Trajectory of Krishna Dasgupta a.k.a Suchitra Sen

Posted on January 19, 2014 by secondsaturn

I did not know till I heard it on television on the reminiscences of her biographer that Roma Dasgupta was enrolled as Krishna Dasgupta in school. I also had no idea that during her wedding ceremony, Roma refused to wear … Continue reading →

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