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: Nostalgia
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
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
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
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
Embracing yet another New Year!
Another year nears end! Suddenly there’s a rush for year-end stories, features welcoming the new year, pondering upon what have we lost or gained this year, what we can look forward to in 2020! We are in a self-evaluation mode (albeit for a short period), … Continue reading Embracing yet another New Year!
Knitting a Warm Winter Story
There was a time when nip in the air would mean bringing out the knitting needles and wools. All our sweaters would be taken out and evaluated. The ones we would have outgrown would be opened and the wool wrapped into a ball again to … Continue reading Knitting a Warm Winter Story
Chicken Malaikari for a flavourful meal
Nothing like good old chicken curry to bring warmth to your soul and add flavour to your table on a winter afternoon. Sharing the recipe of my very talented friend Heema Roy Choudhury. Though she sounds humble, she’s a great cook and a painter too. … Continue reading Chicken Malaikari for a flavourful meal