Bengali Recipes From Grandmas Kitchen

Chingri diye Kolai Dal (Urad Dal with Shrimps)

One autumn evening, Bapi brings home a pair of binoculars. A childhood friend of his had been visiting and he ...

It’s a sultry summer morning, the ancient fan whirring above struggles to provide any respite from the ...

There’s a melancholy despair about Bijoya Doshomi. It’s meant to be a day of festivities and celebration, ...

Grandma carefully pulls out an old Britannia tin, the colours faded with age, the surface dimpled having ...

It’s a gorgeous autumn morning. The nimbus clouds that had usurped the heavens above and scarred them an ...

Every now and then, I pause my game of hopscotch, dart to the ancient iron gate, embellished lately with ...

Was your homeland more beautiful than this? A curious eight year old me asks Grandma one autumn afternoon, ...

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 ...

Cut to half a decade back. It’s a charcoal-scarred sky this morning. Ominous cumulonimbus clouds reign the ...

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

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