Even after the euphoria of Sankranti, the celebration of Mother Earth and her produce, is long over, the ...
Bengali Food styling
The Anglo Indian Railway Mutton Curry
Time flies, on rosy wings. As yet another decade draws to a close, I cannot but revert to the studio ...
Narkeler Pudding (Coconut Pudding)
We hunted. We fished. We foraged. Earthy food. Clean flavours. Redolent of the earth and the rivers. The ...
Shibpur RoyChowdhury Barir Kolar Borar Payesh
Every bonedi barir Durga Pujo has a story to tell, the Durga Pujo in Shibpur RoyChowdhury family, considered ...
Taler Bora (Ripe Palmyra/Sugar Palm Fritters)
It poured like never before. Lightning serpents zigzagged across the charcoal-scarred sky. Peals of deafening ...
Aam Dal | Bengali Tok er Dal| (Lentils with Green Mangoes)
The shrill of the mobile punctuates the sublime calm of the weekend morning. It’s a friend, the storm last ...
Chattagram er Kala Bhuna
I am hardly ten. Just the age when the tragic enigma of Death has started to loom large on my psyche. I am ...
Pabnar Hansher Kalia (Duck Stew in Coconut Milk)
Bapi hardly spoke of his growing up years in what is today Bangladesh. Grandma would inevitably slip into ...
Lonka Pora Rui /Katla (Rohu / Katla with Charred Red Chilli Paste)
It’s a sultry summer morning, the ancient fan whirring above struggles to provide any respite from the ...
Nolen Gurer Sandesh | Sondesh| Norom Paker Sandesh
Grandma carefully pulls out an old Britannia tin, the colours faded with age, the surface dimpled having ...
Mutton Tehari
Was your homeland more beautiful than this? A curious eight year old me asks Grandma one autumn afternoon, ...
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, ...












