Indian

Til diya Murgi Mangxo (Chicken with Black Sesame Seeds, Assamese Style)

This was my first month in Guwahati. Lack of opportunities in my sleepy hometown Karimganj on the ...

Ilish Shukto ? My cousin-in-law gawks at me in stunned disbelief. A pristine shimmering-silver ...

I remember a rainy afternoon when Mashi cooked Ilish, an overnight catch from Kolaghat which the ...

I wake up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window pane. A grey morning. A truant sun ...

There's something romantic about a grey overcast morning. The sulking clouds. The drunken ...

I have never quite been able to explain why Puri holds such a special place in my heart. May be ...

I hate bittergourd. I throw up the most ingenious of tantrums the moment bittergourd turns up on my ...

Eggplant, as fresh as can be, plucked this morning from the kitchen garden. Droplets of rain from ...

Grandma's princess is glum this morning. Incarcerated indoors, thanks to the merciless heat of a ...

I potter around my sun-washed kitchen, gazing at the luscious Bay prawns that rest patiently on the ...

The first memories of kalboisakhi are of stark fear. A little girl cowered in Grandma's lap as ...

Who would have ever imagined a rustic Pirali Brahmin girl, from a nondescript village in far-flung ...