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Sutuli (Xutuli) Pitha

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 ...

Sundays are special, the only day Bapi can laze around in the morning without needing to steal a ...

Can you please help me with the recipe of kheerer sandesh? The message on Facebook read. My grandma ...

It was in the year 1882 that solicitor Shyamal Dhon Dutta started the Durga ...

I have written about the Durga Pujo at the Chorbagan Chatterjees earlier in my Mahabhog series, I am ...