Chingri Maach

Daab Chingri

A cluster of coconut trees stood like silent sentinels at the edge of our backyard — impossibly tall, lean ...

কালীপুজো আসতে না আসতেই হেমন্ত নামে— হাওয়ায় মিশে থাকে একরকম নিঝুম বিষন্নতা। গাছের ডাল থেকে পাতা ...

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

I am a kid who’s just been gifted a new toy, one that I had dreamt about but really never expected to ...

I have written about the Durga Pujo at the Chorbagan Chatterjees earlier in my Mahabhog series, I am sure you ...

In 1610, a good eight decades before the British acquired the zamindari rights of Sutanuti, Gobindopur and ...

The Gondhoraj Lebu plant in the quiet corner of my garden, under the protective canopy of the bougainvillea, ...

Come the first showers and the soulless dust bowl that our backyard had degenerated to in the scorching blaze ...

Bapi chose to remain uncannily reticent whenever Dada and I quizzed him about his and Grandma's migration ...

The plump line-caught Bay of Bengal prawns that rest on my kitchen counter this morning pose infinite ...

The memsahibs bawarchi was a Mog by descent. His ancestors, who hailed from far-flung Chittagong, ...

You do not need to be a wizard in the kitchen to do justice to prawns. Add them to a stir-fry, throw them ...