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Sheem Bhorta | Bharta (Mashed Flat Beans with Fried Onions and Raisins)

Sheem Bhorta was not in the first draft menu I had chalked for the lunch with friends. By when a ...

It has almost become a customary ritual, a couple of my childhood friends from Assam, gathering at ...

I seek inspiration this morning. The muse, the kolshi of nolen gur, the last of the season, rests ...

Even after the euphoria of Sankranti, the celebration of Mother Earth and her produce, is long over, ...

Come new year, and I wallow in honey-sweet nostalgia. I yearn for that perfume of new rice. The ...

The debate at the dinner table is animated. The topic of discussion- where did the ubiquitous pulao ...

Time flies, on rosy wings. As yet another decade draws to a close, I cannot but revert to the ...

Rewind to a fortnight back. The shrill cacophony of the phone punctuates the sublime bliss of the ...

"হেথায় আর্য, হেথা অনার্য হেথায় দ্রাবিড়, চীন-- শক-হুন-দল পাঠান মোগল এক দেহে হল লীন। পশ্চিম আজি ...

We hunted. We fished. We foraged. Earthy food. Clean flavours. Redolent of the earth and the ...

I am a kid who’s just been gifted a new toy, one that I had dreamt about but really never expected ...

Humbled. Honoured. I am touched beyond words when Piyali Boudi, a dear friend and neighbour, sends ...