In 1610, a good eight decades before the British acquired the zamindari rights of Sutanuti, Gobindopur and ...
Durga pujo recipes
Shibpur RoyChowdhury Barir Kolar Borar Payesh
Every bonedi barir Durga Pujo has a story to tell, the Durga Pujo in Shibpur RoyChowdhury family, considered ...
Mejbani Mangsho
And meet my mother-in-law, T announces. The septuagenarian lady who walks out to the living room is an ...
Ilish Recipes you shouldn’t miss
Discover a treasure-trove of Ilish / Hilsa recipes. From Grandmom and Maas kitchen. And whenever, wherever I ...
Chachi’s Chingrir Roshbora ( Shrimp Dumplings in Coconut Milk)
Bapi chose to remain uncannily reticent whenever Dada and I quizzed him about his and Grandma's migration ...
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 ...
Taler Pitha
There’s a melancholy despair about Bijoya Doshomi. It’s meant to be a day of festivities and celebration, ...
Pujor Ranna | Durga Pujor Bhuribhoj
One day to go and She shall be arriving. My lal-par saree has been laundered and ironed. The kansa has ...
Nolen Gurer Sandesh | Sondesh| Norom Paker Sandesh
Grandma carefully pulls out an old Britannia tin, the colours faded with age, the surface dimpled having ...
Murgi Monohora
Isn't it rather unusual that on a manic Monday morning, I wallow in sweet nostalgia, allowing myself the ...
Ilish Chirer Jhol (Hilsa Curry with Fried Flattened Rice)
The shrill of the phone punctuates the idyllic silence of a lazy afternoon. I am immersed in a book, the ...
Moong Phulkopir Ghonto (Caulifower and Moong Dal Dry Curry)
It’s a gorgeous autumn morning. The nimbus clouds that had usurped the heavens above and scarred them an ...












