It's a sultry autumn afternoon. An overwhelming quiet pervades, a sharp contrast to the hectic humdrum and ...
Food Photography
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 ...
Til diya Murgi Mangxo (Chicken with Black Sesame Seeds, Assamese Style)
This was my first month in Guwahati. Lack of opportunities in my sleepy hometown Karimganj on ...
Masor Bilahi Tenga (Fish Curry with Tomatoes, Assamese Style)
My kitchen has been a mad frenzy all week, I have been whipping up my favorite Assamese ...
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 ...
Mati Mahor Dali (Split Black Gram / Urad Dal, Assamese Style)
Growing up in a sleepy hamlet in far-flung Assam was bliss. In the sylvan lap of nature. By the lazy ...
Anarosh Ilish (Hilsa with Pineapple)
Manikkaka looks up anxiously at the charcoal-scarred sky. It is barely nine am this June morning, the first ...
Ilish Shukto (Hilsa with a Medley of Vegetables)
Ilish Shukto ? My cousin-in-law gawks at me in stunned disbelief. A pristine shimmering-silver ilish rests ...
Aam Bhindi Shorshe Ilish (Hilsa with Okra, Green Mangoes and Mustard)
I remember a rainy afternoon when Mashi cooked Ilish, an overnight catch from Kolaghat which the fishmonger ...












