The first thing they noticed was what was missing. Rajkumari Dasi had once possessed enough gold to make even the wealthiest women of the neighbourhood envious, yet that August morning her wrists were bare, her ears empty and her neck stripped of every ornament. The jewellery had vanished, but the dark marks around her throat…
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Keeper Of The Family Tree
As the tower clock on top of Maniktala Bazar chimed three at the nocturnal hour before dawn every morning, an ancient and wrinkled mysterious man was up and ready to perform his most unusual antic. Centenarian Jotayu Pakrashi was the last leaf in the Pakrashi family tree of the corner house at the intersection of…
Fish n Rice
Bipin Bihari Choudharee belonged to a very particular breed of endangered Bengalis. A dying pedigree reminiscent of the bygone days of the Zamindars and ‘babu-culture’. A typical Bong in many ways and unique in some very distinctive traits. Residing in his ancestral home – a dying palatial facade in Goabagan, north Kolkata, Bipin had never left the ‘City of Joy’. The septuagenarian…
Weekend Stories by Trishikh 