There is a certain unruliness to pui shaak that I have always admired. It does not grow—it advances. It ...
Fish
Lau Boal er Jhol
The heat is punishing to say the least. It’s early morning, yet the sun is at its repressive best. I toss ...
Whole Roasted Fish
It was somewhere in the pristine verdant slopes high up the Malaysian highlands. A nondescript shack. By a ...
Mourola Maacher Peyaji
My princess must have inherited her love for fish from her Grandfather, Grandma would inevitably comment to ...
Fish Florentine I Bhetki Florentine
It was a fog-laced chilly winter morning when S had suggested we head for breakfast to one of ...
Rita Aunty’s Prawn Temperado, the Anglo Indian Way
The phone rings for a while before the unmistakable baritone voice of Rita Aunty answers the call. Did I ...
Tel Koi
I have sulked all morning. It’s unacceptable and unfair, I have rehearsed the fervent pitch in ...
Bhetki Maacher Jhal
I wake up to charcoal bruised heavens and the pitter-patter of rain this morning. It’s not ...
Bhapa Ilish
The man has brought home some absolute gorgeous Hilsa, D rattles on the phone, animated and impatient, ...
Boal Maacher Biryani
Maacher Biryani ? A cynical S had asked me. We were in Hyderabad, savouring a delectable biryani, ...
Chingri Bhorta
The first day of the lockdown and we were thoroughly under-prepared. We knew it was coming, we were rather ...
Fish Bake, the Anglo Indian Way
"হেথায় আর্য, হেথা অনার্য হেথায় দ্রাবিড়, চীন-- শক-হুন-দল পাঠান মোগল এক দেহে হল লীন। পশ্চিম আজি খুলিয়াছে ...












