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”