Charu Majumdar: A new biography imagines the CPIM(L) leader's interrogation by the police
An excerpt from ‘Charu Majumdar: The Dreamer Rebel’, by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.
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An excerpt from ‘Charu Majumdar: The Dreamer Rebel’, by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.
Muzaffar Ali in conversation with Professor Fatmi. Allahabad has been home to a large community of Anglo-Indians since the time of British colonial rule. Though many members migrated to Australia and the United Kingdom sometime in the 1970s, the community still has sizeable presence in the city. My teaching job at the Boys’ High School connected me to this community and their delectable cuisine: a mixture of Indian and British culinary heritage. I discovered the Goan dish vindaloo, Christmas cakes baked at Bushy’s, and homemade mustard dips. Bushy’s, a bakery run by a Muslim family sinc...