Ms. Mekhala Banerjee (At Risk Stories)
Ms. Mekhala Banerjee
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Mekhala Banerjee, 73, is a retired cancer research lab technician and an author. The interview includes discussion of her childhood in Burdwan, outside of Calcutta, her arranged marriage, trouble learning English when she moved to the United States, and raising her children in the Chicago Bengali community. She discusses how she was home-schooled until age 8 and how she went on to earn her master’s in Chemistry before her marriage. Key friendships helped her adjust to life here, especially raising a newborn without any of the domestic help that she was accustomed to in India. She enjoys writing in her free time and has published three books in Bengali and one in English.
Mr. Santimoy Banerjee (At Risk Stories)
Santimoy Banerjee, 80, is a philanthropist and retired biochemist. The interview includes discussion of his training in the 1960s in the growing field of biochemistry at the University of Calcutta Bose Institute and at Harvard...