Thursday mornings are special. The otherwise sleepy house in the time-stops-still hamlet of Karimganj, a ...
Bengali Recipes From Grandmas Kitchen
Manghser Ghugni (Yellow Peas with Mutton)
Talk to a Mumbaikar and he shall flaunt about the best pav bhajis and vada paos that money can buy. Talk ...
Fish Kabiraji Cutlet (Fish Coverage Cutlet)
The Fish Kabiraji Cutlet. Our indigenous Bhetki. Marinated in onion-ginger-garlic juices. Green chillies if ...
Narkel Chingri Pulao (Prawn Pilaf with Coconut)
The radio is the cynosure of the humble study in our house. The wooden contraption, religiously dusted by ...
Kancha Lonka Murgi (Chicken with Green Chilies)
I idle around the house, nursing a nagging cold, one of those unrelenting ones that gets subdued by a dose of ...
Uchche Chapor Ghonto (Bittergourd with Roasted Lentil Fritters)
It's a sultry autumn afternoon. An overwhelming quiet pervades, a sharp contrast to the hectic humdrum and ...
Jhinge Kumro Paturi (Ridgegourd and Pumpkin with Mustard and Coconut)
It's been a prolific pumpkin season, Grandma and Maa have been patiently sending dispatches of gorgeous ...
Chal Potol (Parwal / Pointed Gourd with Fragrant Rice)
I would know the tin even if I were blindfolded. Battered. Long past its prime. The Parle biscuit label, an ...
Kumror Dhokar Dalna (Pumpkin and Lentil Cake Curry)
There are days when Dada is outrageously fussy with his food and worse still, for no comprehensible reason. ...
Pepe Jhal (Spicy Green Papaya Curry with Chickpeas and Poppyseed Paste)
Come the rains and the backyard is a frenzied riot of verdant green. The papaya trees, just outside my ...
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 ...
Anarosh Ilish (Hilsa with Pineapple)
Manikkaka looks up anxiously at the charcoal-scarred sky. It is barely nine am this June morning, the first ...












