The Royal College of Physicians is an organisation which represents doctors worldwide. During South Asian Heritage Month, the College has been featuring stories from doctors with a South Asian Heritage.
Framing Memory: Photography and Family Memories of Punjab
The language of photography and the language of memory are intimately connected. We narrate the stories of our lives in terms of snapshots, images and albums, and our photographs which are amongst our most treasured possessions.
This little lady is my grandma (baa). She's less than 5ft, can barely walk and is pretty much blind. She's 90-something but no one's entirely sure.
"Where are you from?" I get asked that all the time. I usually say "West Yorkshire"
‘What’s Cooking?’: Stories Of food, Migration, And Bangladesh
Food is a potent way of evoking personal memory and memories of migration, family life and historical events
Back in her college days, when Mama was single, she was part of the theatre
For the first ten years of my life, I was obsessed with my culture
The black-and-white photograph is of my parents. They were gardeners
My father came to the UK 1956 to study at the London School of Economics
My mum was born on this day in 1958 in Jamnagar, India
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