The fifth morning of lockdown. We are getting used to blissful time-stop-still mornings - ...
Food Styling
Nolen Gur and Chilli Cheesecake
I seek inspiration this morning. The muse, the kolshi of nolen gur, the last of the season, rests on the ...
Sutuli (Xutuli) Pitha
Come new year, and I wallow in honey-sweet nostalgia. I yearn for that perfume of new rice. The ritual of ...
Kakara Pitha
The debate at the dinner table is animated. The topic of discussion- where did the ubiquitous pulao ...
Doodher Jhol
Humbled. Honoured. I am touched beyond words when Piyali Boudi, a dear friend and neighbour, sends me her ...
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 ...
Taler Bora (Ripe Palmyra/Sugar Palm Fritters)
It poured like never before. Lightning serpents zigzagged across the charcoal-scarred sky. Peals of deafening ...
Mutton Glassy
It is pouring outside. The sky is a canvas of monochromes, dull shades of grey, punctuated by ebony, the ...
Aam Dal | Bengali Tok er Dal| (Lentils with Green Mangoes)
The shrill of the mobile punctuates the sublime calm of the weekend morning. It’s a friend, the storm last ...
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 ...
Pabnar Hansher Kalia (Duck Stew in Coconut Milk)
Bapi hardly spoke of his growing up years in what is today Bangladesh. Grandma would inevitably slip into ...












