Mughalsarai Junction is a big, busy station located at the mid-point of the route between Kolkata and New Delhi, travelling east to west. We lived in East India with origins in Uttar Pradesh and every year the vacation was reserved to visit grandparents and other relatives in North India. Most trains from Tatanagar (Jamshedpur) to
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My Nani, born in 1902, was a Tamil Brahmin widow and a torchbearer for indomitable courage and achievement. She was married at age 12 to a much older widower who already had a child. He died when she was 21, leaving her with 3 young children and little money. She had to depend on the
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I landed in Dusseldorf, Germany on the last Lufthansa flight from Portugal. I was crisscrossing Europe conducting post-acquisition integration workshops and it was really late in the night by the time I reached the designated hotel in a small town in Germany, an hour’s drive from the airport. My Turkish driver had just ripped me
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I was born in the part of Bihar that is now Jharkhand but maintained my original statehood (read: where my parents originated from) and would tell everyone that we were from UP. Now, married to a Bihari for 33+ years, I have also come to know and appreciate the cuisine from that state. So a
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