Food Styling

Chingri diye Kolai Dal (Urad Dal with Shrimps)

One autumn evening, Bapi brings home a pair of binoculars. A childhood friend of his had been visiting and he ...

It’s a sultry summer morning, the ancient fan whirring above struggles to provide any respite from the ...

One day to go and She shall be arriving. My lal-par saree has been laundered and ironed. The kansa has ...

Was your homeland more beautiful than this? A curious eight year old me asks Grandma one autumn afternoon, ...

Sunday afternoons were the only time Bapi managed some respite from his otherwise hectic, often punishing, ...

It’s not everyday that my fishmonger calls to inform that he’s got some gorgeous boal maach. And that he has ...

Flanked on the south by Kalighat, home to the ancient temple where resides the presiding deity of the city ...

A wicker basket laden with luscious plump oranges greets me this morning. The grey winter man, a shroud of ...

It’s my first Holi in Delhi and that it’s an explosion on my senses, is an ...

Dada loathed vegetables and greens in his growing-up years. I was less of a rebel, although I do need to ...

The rooftop of the cowshed, just behind the kitchen garden, protected by the leafy canopy of the gnarled ...

I adore my greens. And one of the myriad reasons why I love winters is the prolific abundance of ...