This was my first month in Guwahati. Lack of opportunities in my sleepy hometown Karimganj on ...
Recipes
Masor Bilahi Tenga (Fish Curry with Tomatoes, Assamese Style)
My kitchen has been a mad frenzy all week, I have been whipping up my favorite Assamese ...
Aloo Aru Bengena Pitika (Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Eggplant Mash, Assamese Style)
A friend of mine and I decide to catch up over lunch. It's over a decade that she had been out of the ...
Mati Mahor Dali (Split Black Gram / Urad Dal, Assamese Style)
Growing up in a sleepy hamlet in far-flung Assam was bliss. In the sylvan lap of nature. By the lazy ...
Anarosh Ilish (Hilsa with Pineapple)
Manikkaka looks up anxiously at the charcoal-scarred sky. It is barely nine am this June morning, the first ...
Ilish Shukto (Hilsa with a Medley of Vegetables)
Ilish Shukto ? My cousin-in-law gawks at me in stunned disbelief. A pristine shimmering-silver ilish rests ...
Aam Bhindi Shorshe Ilish (Hilsa with Okra, Green Mangoes and Mustard)
I remember a rainy afternoon when Mashi cooked Ilish, an overnight catch from Kolaghat which the fishmonger ...
Mille Feuille Mango Crepe Cake
It's the crack of dawn. Goubert Avenue and the fabled French Quarters of Pondicherry still hide behind a ...
Tangra Maachher Chorchori (Tangra Maach Cooked with a Medley of Vegetables)
I wake up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window pane. A grey morning. A truant sun playing ...
Doodh Pabda (Pabda with Milk)
There's something romantic about a grey overcast morning. The sulking clouds. The drunken gales. The ...
Dhakai Murgi Khichuri (Chicken Khichdi, Dhaka Style)
Today is Eid-Al-Fitr, the day which marks the end of the holy month of Ramdan, a day synonymous with ...
Shahi Beguni (Special Eggplant Fritters)
It's wistful nostalgia for me on this auspicious day of Rathyatra, the chariot festival when the Lord and his ...