I have never had a proper album, so it took a bit of scrounging to find the photographs that are precious to me. Isaac Singer once wrote about the loss of old letters and photographs, which he compared to the casual destruction of civilizations. It makes me anxious just to think what'd happen if I lost these.
My parents (Chabi and Sunil Kumar Basu) in the charming little study of our flat. The jacket of Banglar Nari Andolan (Women’s movement in Bengal), the first account in Bangla of women’s struggle in colonial India, written by my mother and published by my father in 1945. Me and my elder sister Sarmistha, my only sibling. These are the only surviving photos of me taken as a child. As a child actor with Shabitri Chatterjee in the film Abasheshe, directed by Mrinal Sen. 
Playing the mad scientist, Mobius,
in Friedrich Durrenmatt’s The Physicists.Giving a speech on politics and theatre at my university, with the famous dramatist/actor Bijon Bhattacharya (farthest to the left) and the film maker Mrinal Sen
(next to him) listening.Taken in the late seventies during my first visit to the U.S. Back in the U.S. in the eighties for another round of studies, but with the ghost of the arts still hovering over my head. My Susmita, a few months before we were married in 1982. In Kalimpong, during our honeymoon. Our daughter, Aparajita (Ajlai). In conversation.
Photo: Nemai Ghosh
At home.
Photo: Nemai Ghosh
