Memories of Reading: Part II
“Ma got totally exasperated with the fights, which had become ritual, she would have with me over who got to read Desh first.” Part II of Chitralekha Basu’s literary childhood.
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Unconditional Surrender: April 30, 1975
“I’d like to find out where the one-way ticket goes, though. China has Taiwan and Korea has South Korea. Where will we go? To some tiny island somewhere? Wherever it is will be freedom.” Michelle Robin La shares the first person account of her husband’s experience as a child in the Vietnam on April 30th, 1975.
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Brass Pounder
“He never smiles. This is true of all later photographs. With autobiographical writings, they suggest a serious, even brooding temperament.” Robert Boucheron’s short biography of his grandfather’s life as an early telegraph operator.
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Fairmount Trees
“I have always felt a kinship with trees; in truth, most of my proclivities come down on the side of nature. I set this down to a combination of temperament and a childhood spent on a Caribbean island”. Summer Edward remembers her constant companions, the trees.
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The Naïve Groom
“I was envious of this open and free culture, this nonchalant attitude toward the body and sex. I wished I was not born and raised in such a straight-laced society.” Rudy Ravindra remembers his escape from an arranged marriage in India and his first love in the United States.
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