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,