The story of a Bengali Family as it transcended the annals of time and across geographies in then undivided India.

Our grandparents pose with their sons, daughters, nephew, nieces and grand kids in a beautiful group photograph probably in Surat, Gujarat. Surat was the hub of cotton textile production, a city that my maternal grandparents migrated to from Barisal in undivided Bengal. While they carried stories of trauma from losing their homes and lands from the partition of India, their indomitable spirit to build their lives from scratch led them to a promising land of divided yet secular India.

Secular India in 1947 was rife with stories of partition and violence. The displacement of people across Hindu and Muslim boundaries led to migrations from eastern and western fronts of India.