My Many Avatars Year end is the time for reminiscing, for pondering over the year going by and the many years that have gone by. We tend to look back and gauge our lives, our achievements, our many successes, our failures, our disappointments. There are … Continue reading Old Me, New Me, My Many Avatars…
Category: Reminiscing
Potato Tales: All About Aloo
Bengali aloor dum. Image courtesy Whiskaffair We Indians and aloo. The starchy potato or aloo is probably the most popular vegetable in India. There’s aloo in our samosa and aloo in our dosa, there’s aloo parantha and aloo bonda, there’s aloo tikki, aloo chat and … Continue reading Potato Tales: All About Aloo
Light and Darkness
We celebrate the Festival of Light on a new moon autumn night that falls on the Hindu month of Kartik to drive the darkness away. Anything that is dark is somehow associated with evil in our culture. We light lamps or diyas on Deepavali to celebrate the victory of … Continue reading Light and Darkness
A piece from my childhood – gifted to Katha by Titas Mazumdar
I have very fond memories of my maternal Grandparent's home in Krishnanagar... our summer destination every year during my school days... The Greens My grandparents had a big house by the Jalongi river with a lot of greenery all around… coconut, mango, guava, jackfruit, black … Continue reading A piece from my childhood – gifted to Katha by Titas Mazumdar
Rediscovering the allures of Tripura
Tripura, the place that I have grown up in, spent the first 20 years of my life there. Tripura is familiar, will always be my home state. But when you go home after a while and look around you realize there’s so much more to … Continue reading Rediscovering the allures of Tripura
The earthy sweetness of Poush Sankranti
Malpoa & dudh puli from Swadhinata'a kitchen There’s a price that we pay for city living, losing out on our traditional festivals being one. I remember Poush Sankranti as an important occasion growing up. Mom and my grandmother would get up early, take bath and … Continue reading The earthy sweetness of Poush Sankranti
Twin Tales of Love – by Riti Chakraborty
The girl in a yellow kurti I think I talked to you for the first time in an abandoned staircase I had begun calling my ‘home’. You had stumbled across from the other part of the building. And I knew because I would see you … Continue reading Twin Tales of Love – by Riti Chakraborty
To the change all so sudden!
The new masked normal Change of the old world order, leaving behind the good old things, a strong feeling of nostalgia for the days gone by, had prompted me to start this blog. In The Retro Feeling, I had mourned that change, tried in my small way … Continue reading To the change all so sudden!
My Kitchen Garden with the help of those tiny hands by Titas Mazumdar
Working Mom - isn’t it always a big challenge? The guilt of not able to give enough time to your little ones, and the fear of not creating enough childhood memories. I am no different and not free from those guilts. I keep on brainstorming … Continue reading My Kitchen Garden with the help of those tiny hands by Titas Mazumdar
Savouring Vintage Wine
The price that we are willing to pay for a bottle of old wine! Connoisseurs and collectors outbid each other in Sotheby’s or Christie’s to possess a bottle of fine vintage wine. They are preserved and stored with the utmost care and savoured only on Very … Continue reading Savouring Vintage Wine