Dedicated to the 50th Independence Day of Bangladesh on March 26, 2021 Snapshot one: The phone rings; it’s a call from my sister. I pick it up and hear her excited voice. I gasp and respond, “What did you say? Tappu is potty-trained? Wow! She is potty-trained at two and a half? That is …
“I cannot breathe” – that’s what George Floyd said when a white cop murdered him in Minneapolis. During this time where Coronavirus has forced us to change the way we live our lives, all of us can recognize the feeling of not being able to breathe – the whole world seems to be holding its …
(5 September 1923 – 14 January 2017) When I last saw my grandmother, Dida, she was ninety-four years old. She recited Rabindranath Tagore’s “Pujarini” for me from memory. It was a two-page long poem, written in difficult to pronounce words, and in the smallest of fonts. Dida did not forget a single word. It is …
