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 handed down through the generations. The cours...
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 metros have specially adjusted their time
schedu...
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 ‘Tilottama
Kolkata’ decked up for Durga Puja. I, seat...
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
travels over the last ten years I have always no...
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 SwamiVivekanada, the great Philosopher translat...
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
drifts my mind to those days when we used to ...
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July 11th, 2016
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
literature and one can even guess the season of...
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June 30th, 2016
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 deeply in our hearts and minds that
they have ...
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, I would have to do literally
everything, fro...
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May 10th, 2016
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 super-foods has its own set of nutritional values...