Bengali Fish Curry

Uchche diye Maacher Dim (Bittergourd and Fish Roe Stir Fry)

Kakimoni was an angel. She lived a few houses away from us down the flaming gulmohor-crowned cul-de-sac, ...

I have often mused about the East Bengal - West Bengal divide when it comes to food. And ...

Would a trip to Kolkata ever be complete without a ritualistic sojourn to the Maniktala Market ? Well, ...

Summer vacations have just started. Days are scorching, Grandma discourages me from venturing outside during ...

The summer is fierce. The glare is blinding and the heat enervating. Who ever thought the coy innocent Sun ...

It’s not everyday that my fishmonger calls to inform that he’s got some gorgeous boal maach. And that he has ...

What is a nation ? Grandma ruminated, her eyes staring listlessly at the distant horizon, her voice choked ...

And so Dada and I set out, one golden autumn morning, gorgeous sunshine bathing the metropolis, still ...

Manikkaka looks up anxiously at the charcoal-scarred sky. It is barely nine am this June morning, the first ...

Ilish Shukto ? My cousin-in-law gawks at me in stunned disbelief. A pristine shimmering-silver ilish rests ...

I remember a rainy afternoon when Mashi cooked Ilish, an overnight catch from Kolaghat which the fishmonger ...

I wake up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window pane. A grey morning. A truant sun playing ...