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Chingri Bhorta

The first day of the lockdown and we were thoroughly under-prepared. We knew it was coming, we were rather ...

It was sometime late October last year. The Pujas were over, Diwali was round the corner. The perfume of ...

Sheem Bhorta was not in the first draft menu I had chalked for the lunch with friends. By when a neighbour ...

It has almost become a customary ritual, a couple of my childhood friends from Assam, gathering at my place ...

I seek inspiration this morning. The muse, the kolshi of nolen gur, the last of the season, rests on the ...

Even after the euphoria of Sankranti, the celebration of Mother Earth and her produce, is long over, the ...

Come new year, and I wallow in honey-sweet nostalgia. I yearn for that perfume of new rice. The ritual of ...

The debate at the dinner table is animated. The topic of discussion- where did the ubiquitous pulao ...

Time flies, on rosy wings. As yet another decade draws to a close, I cannot but revert to the studio ...

Rewind to a fortnight back. The shrill cacophony of the phone punctuates the sublime bliss of the winter ...

"হেথায় আর্য, হেথা অনার্য হেথায় দ্রাবিড়, চীন-- শক-হুন-দল পাঠান মোগল এক দেহে হল লীন। পশ্চিম আজি খুলিয়াছে ...

We hunted. We fished. We foraged. Earthy food. Clean flavours. Redolent of the earth and the rivers. The ...