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Food is an integral part of Bengali culture. Be it a festival, puja or a wedding, cuisine plays a major role in the celebrations. Bengali cooking has mostly been nurtured in households and families and the dishes are carefully prepared as per recipes..

All the flights are full even though the ticket prices have risen to almost double and the train tickets are unavailable, not even in tatkal! Yes! Tickets to Kolkata during Durga Puja is a challenge to get hold of. The roads are blocked, autos and me..

The seatbelts were fastened and the lights had been brightened as the last flight for the day prepared to land in Netaji Shubhas Chandra Bose Airport. All the passengers at the window seats felt lucky as they enjoyed the first glimpses of the ‘Tilott..

Touring has always being a part of my job. On this note, I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I -being a lecturer and also a researcher in tourism- have been privileged to travel almost all across our beautiful country. During my tr..

Many of us know these famous verses inthe Bhagavad-Gita that say:Yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhavati bharataAbhythanamadharmasya tadatmanam srijamyaham Paritranaya sadhunang vinashay cha dushkritamDharmasangsthapanarthay sambhabami yuge yuge SwamiVi..

Friendship Day…A day we celebrate to rejoice the spirit of true friendship. This day demands celebrations in the company of your close pals and buddies. However, many a times we ask ourselves “where are my close friends?” The very thought of this day..

We Bengalis eat to live and live to eat. Food is the common thread that connects all Bengalis across the world. Food is the topic of the quintessential adda and the one thing that every Bengali thinks about most of the time. It has inspired Bengali l..

Every Bengali I know (including myself) has a soft corner for some things that are quintessentially “Bong”, like the Howrah Bridge, Maidan, phuchka, misti, mustard oil (shorser tel), mach (fish of course) to name a few. These things are ingrained so ..

All my bags were packed and I was ready to go. Summer vacations were over and it was time for the university to reopen. No excuses to stay back at home would work anymore. Yet again, I would have to go back and have that boring hostel food. Yet again..

We all know Kolkata is a paradise for food lovers, quite simply because we Bengalis are very serious about food. Not only do we know how to distinguish between Fish curry and Maacher Jhol, Mixed vegetable and Paanch mishali, Masala puffed rice and Jh..

It was a Wednesday afternoon; I was busy in my college invigilating for the post-lunch exam session when suddenly my phone rang, breaking the monotony of the trance-like environment. Everyone started looking around here and there. Quite embarrassed, ..

Be it Vegetarians or Non- vegetarians, daal is a compulsory dish for all Indian meals especially for the Bengalis. Daals are types of pulses that have many nutritional values. Apart from the general health benefits of all daals, each type of these su..