Gouri Mondal
Migration Geography
1961 – East Pakistan
1970 – Chanda Camp – Maharashtra, India
1971 – Dhaka, Bangladesh
1981 – PL 3, Mana Camp – Raipur, India
“আমার ঘাড়ের মধ ্যে না মা, শিরা দাবিয়ে গেছে – আমি হাঁটতে পারিনা, আমার মাথা ঘুরায় আর গায়ের মধ্যে কাপুনি দেয়। ভালো কোনো সরকারি ডাক্তার ও দেখেনা, কোনো সরকারি ফেসিলিটি ও দেয়না।বছরে পনেরশ টাকায় কাপড় জামা হয়?”
“I have got a nerve issue in my neck
are, you know my child. I can’t
walk well, my head spins, my body
shivers. No good government doctor
has seen me. There is no facility.
How can we manage clothes with
1500 rupees per year for clothes?”
Location: PL 3, Mana Camp – Raipur, India
Date of Interview: November 2, 2021
Interviewer: Mohana Chatterjee
Sponsored: Mohana Chatterjee
Transcribed: Hemantika Mukherjee
Summary: Rituparna Roy
Images: Aurgho Jyoti
Rita Dutta Roy is a unique story of a Bengali who
migrated from West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan)
to India in the wake of the 1947 Partition. She
recalls that her grandfather, Upendra Krishna Bose,
shifted from Murshidabad to Lahore in 1920. Her
father, Kamal Krishna Bose, was born in undivided
Bengal, and after the family moved to Western
Punjab, he pursued his higher education at DAV
College, Lahore, sharing the classroom with the
likes of Bhagat Singh. Rita Dutta Roy, however, was
born in Rawalpindi in 1940, where his father was
posted in Messrs. Fergusson & Company, a chartered
accountant firm. Her mother’s family was settled
in Benaras for generations. Manimala, her mother,
studied at the Benaras Hindu University before
coming to Rawalpindi after her marriage to Rita’s
father.
In 1944, when Rita Dutta Roy was around four years
old, her father got transferred to Lahore. During that
period, she got a chance to live with her extended
family members. She vividly remembers the house,
which, as she describes, was a bungalow on Tap
Kabita Saha
Migration Geography
1961 – East Pakistan
1970 – Chanda Camp – Maharashtra, India
1971 – Dhaka, Bangladesh
1981 – PL 3, Mana Camp – Raipur, India
“আমার ঘাড়ের মধ ্যে না মা, শিরা দাবিয়ে গেছে – আমি হাঁটতে পারিনা, আমার মাথা ঘুরায় আর গায়ের মধ্যে কাপুনি দেয়। ভালো কোনো সরকারি ডাক্তার ও দেখেনা, কোনো সরকারি ফেসিলিটি ও দেয়না।বছরে পনেরশ টাকায় কাপড় জামা হয়?”
“I have got a nerve issue in my neck
are, you know my child. I can’t
walk well, my head spins, my body
shivers. No good government doctor
has seen me. There is no facility.
How can we manage clothes with
1500 rupees per year for clothes?”
Location: PL 3, Mana Camp – Raipur, India
Date of Interview: November 2, 2021
Interviewer: Mohana Chatterjee
Sponsored: Mohana Chatterjee
Transcribed: Hemantika Mukherjee
Summary: Rituparna Roy
Images: Aurgho Jyoti
Rita Dutta Roy is a unique story of a Bengali who
migrated from West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan)
to India in the wake of the 1947 Partition. She
recalls that her grandfather, Upendra Krishna Bose,
shifted from Murshidabad to Lahore in 1920. Her
father, Kamal Krishna Bose, was born in undivided
Bengal, and after the family moved to Western
Punjab, he pursued his higher education at DAV
College, Lahore, sharing the classroom with the
likes of Bhagat Singh. Rita Dutta Roy, however, was
born in Rawalpindi in 1940, where his father was
posted in Messrs. Fergusson & Company, a chartered
accountant firm. Her mother’s family was settled
in Benaras for generations. Manimala, her mother,
studied at the Benaras Hindu University before
coming to Rawalpindi after her marriage to Rita’s
father.
In 1944, when Rita Dutta Roy was around four years
old, her father got transferred to Lahore. During that
period, she got a chance to live with her extended
family members. She vividly remembers the house,
which, as she describes, was a bungalow on Tap
