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Maacher Dimer Paturi (Fish Roe in Banana Leaf Parcels)

A charcoal-bruised sky greets me as I open my eyes this morning. Two rain-drenched parakeets sit on ...

I rattle off the steps once again in my head. Remember to marinate the meat overnight. Cook the ...

The shrill of the mobile punctuates the sublime calm of the weekend morning. It’s a friend, the ...

The Gondhoraj Lebu plant in the quiet corner of my garden, under the protective canopy of the ...

Come the first showers and the soulless dust bowl that our backyard had degenerated to in the ...

Bapi chose to remain uncannily reticent whenever Dada and I quizzed him about his and Grandma's ...

I am hardly ten. Just the age when the tragic enigma of Death has started to loom large on my ...

Bapi hardly spoke of his growing up years in what is today Bangladesh. Grandma would inevitably ...

The sight of the moringa tree in a neighbours garden, abloom with pristine ivory buds, makes me ...

Just a couple of days before I head back home, Maa and I are at our local vegetable market and that ...

The walk shall be long, Bapi cautions, are you sure you want to walk all the way ? I nod in ...

One autumn evening, Bapi brings home a pair of binoculars. A childhood friend of his had been ...