Fish

Tangra Maachher Chorchori (Tangra Maach Cooked with a Medley of Vegetables)

I wake up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window pane. A grey morning. A truant sun playing ...

There's something romantic about a grey overcast morning. The sulking clouds. The drunken gales. The ...

I potter around my sun-washed kitchen, gazing at the luscious Bay prawns that rest patiently on the black ...

That Grandma is furiously finicky with her rice is an understatement. The grains have to be perfect. The ...

The fledgling bottlegourd vine by the cowshed is mischievous. Every time a punctilious Manikkaka trains her ...

My fishmonger gets me a delectable catch of pabda this spring-is-melting-into-summer morning. As fresh as ...

When my fishmonger calls me this morning to inform that he has (finally !!) managed to get fresh shol maach, ...

The incredibly bony virtually inedible gada of the prized chitol maach rests on a kansa thala in front of ...

The laal shaak resting pretty on the kitchen counter draws me to a listless afternoon decades back. The ...

Needless to reiterate, we Bengalis love our fish. And over hundreds of years, we have been intrepid ...

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

There are days when wallowing in idle ruminations gives me the most sublime of pleasures. If this were a ...