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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Quarantine cooking (Not your regular bat soup): Veg Thukpa and Orange-glazed ginger fish
Covid-19 lockdown is every introverts’ wet dream, they say. Three weeks down, I working from home and life isn’t any different for me, I used to run the world from my bed avoiding people, I still do. What changed is that my hands feel like sandpaper now from all the washing. Also, cleaning has gottenContinue reading “Quarantine cooking (Not your regular bat soup): Veg Thukpa and Orange-glazed ginger fish”
Ranna Baati 