Poila Boisakh a.k.a. Bengali New Year has always been an important day in every Bengali household. Gorging my way through an array of pithe-puli and wearing notun jama-kaapor is what I remember as the new start of the year beckons. In my childhood days in Assam, convent schools didn’t prioritize Bengali festivals but luckily itContinue reading “Ekla Boisakh – A sorrower’s guide to acing the lockdown in festivities alone”
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Phena Bhaat and the definition of Bengali school-time breakfast
Often Bengalis are associated with regal breakfast dishes like a Sunday Morning Luchi Aloo’r Dom (Deep fried puffy bread and Spicy Bengali Potato Masala), Cholar Dal (Thick Lentils soup), Koraishutir Kochuri (Green Peas Kachori) or a Radha Ballavi (Lentil stuffed bread). In the legendary reputation of these elaborate breakfast preparations, Phena Bhaat (Bengali Rice Congee)Continue reading “Phena Bhaat and the definition of Bengali school-time breakfast”
How I met your Mother; oops I meant your perfect Sunday mutton curry.
As I write this blog today, a train of images rummages through my photographic mind. An usual Sunday morning. A 6-year old me has the amnesty to wake up at 10 in the morning today without Maa screaming, “You’re going to be late for school!” Brushing can clock-watch its event for a while too, it’sContinue reading “How I met your Mother; oops I meant your perfect Sunday mutton curry.”
Ranna Baati 