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Daab Chingri

A cluster of coconut trees stood like silent sentinels at the edge of our backyard — impossibly tall, lean ...

This story begins on a sultry summer day of the mid 90s in Madhyamgram. Still a quiet afterthought on the map ...

I insist on accompanying Bapi to the baajaar. It’s a bright spring morning, the skies a clear unbroken blue, ...

In Bengal, nothing is ever truly wasted. Not the peel of a gourd, not the stems of greens, not even ...

There is a certain unruliness to pui shaak that I have always admired. It does not grow—it advances. It ...

The fruit vendor arrives like a quiet herald of indulgence, his basket brimming with cherries—plump, taut, ...

Madurai is an ancient enchantress - she does not reveal herself all at once. She unfolds slowly to the ...

I first experienced Watalappam on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, on a lazy, sun-scorched afternoon. Lunch ...

Some dishes arrive not in grand Michelin-starred restaurants, but in nondescript hole-in-the-wall places ...

There are places where food is sustenance, and there are places where food is memory — stitched with longing, ...

It’s a quiet afternoon. Spring is melting, slowly, very slowly into what promises to be a harsh summer. The ...

Who said brownies are sin ? My triple chocolate ragi brownies are fudgy, chocolatey, and all things brownie ...