Kolkata is a gastronomic melting pot of multiple communities. Many have come here, got settled and in turn, enriched our own cuisine.…
Winter is officially over. AC’s are getting serviced and one can feel the warmth of sun in the afternoons. Whether we like…
“why is it so, that heritage means only some old structures? Our city has a rich intangible heritage. So, why don’t we…
Kolkata has always been a melting pot- a confluence of culture. And for a glutton like me, no culture is complete without…
Being a Bengali পেটুক, born in Kolkata, I have a certain mental blockage against eating Bengali food at a restaurant. I always…
Shantiniketan can be called as the average (or non-average) Bengali’s intellectual capital. It’s just 4.5 hour’s drive from Kolkata and by train,…
I believe in a very simple philosophy. If any restaurant, or business in that matter, crosses a century- it’s safe. More than…
“Kulfi malai chaiiiiii ” for most of us middle-aged human beings, this call was quite a similar one. During childhood, there used…
It was around two centuries back, yes, long time … One Mr Philip Miner Dacres used to meet sailors over meals in…
The (infamous) scorching summer in Bengal was just settling in when we decided to go on a sweet hunt. It was a…
