Chingri Maach

Chingri Bhorta

The first day of the lockdown and we were thoroughly under-prepared. We knew it was coming, we were ...

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

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

In 1610, a good eight decades before the British acquired the zamindari rights of Sutanuti, ...

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 ...

The plump line-caught Bay of Bengal prawns that rest on my kitchen counter this morning pose ...

The memsahibs bawarchi was a Mog by descent. His ancestors, who hailed from far-flung ...

You do not need to be a wizard in the kitchen to do justice to prawns. Add them to a stir-fry, ...

As soon as my eyes rest on the plump prawns fresh from the Bay this rain-blessed cloud-cloaked ...

With chingri posto this morning, I continue my sojourn on Posto enthusiasm. This time its the ...