Traditional Bengali Recipes

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 ...

There’s a melancholy despair about Bijoya Doshomi. It’s meant to be a day of festivities and celebration, ...

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

Grandma carefully pulls out an old Britannia tin, the colours faded with age, the surface dimpled having ...

Isn't it rather unusual that on a manic Monday morning, I wallow in sweet nostalgia, allowing myself the ...

It’s a gorgeous autumn morning. The nimbus clouds that had usurped the heavens above and scarred them an ...

Every now and then, I pause my game of hopscotch, dart to the ancient iron gate, embellished lately with ...

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

Kakimoni was an angel. She lived a few houses away from us down the flaming gulmohor-crowned cul-de-sac, ...

I have often mused about the East Bengal - West Bengal divide when it comes to food. And ...

Cut to half a decade back. It’s a charcoal-scarred sky this morning. Ominous cumulonimbus clouds reign the ...