“What do I cook for lunch?” This is an everyday dilemma in the lockdown period for me as work, cook and play happen under one roof now. One minute I am sauteing the onions and the other minute I am tapping the laptop to check for new pings. The sink in the kitchen is aContinue reading “Work & Life during Covid-19 | Egg Tehari”
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Ekla Boisakh – A sorrower’s guide to acing the lockdown in festivities alone
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”
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”