nostalgia

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…

“Among all the biryani I’ve tasted, one of the most underrated ones is Muradabadi biryani at Nizamuddin Basti”, I commented and casually sat…

Veg food in Delhi is a myth- my friends told me. But that’s not the scene– no. There is a huge variety…

In Kolkata, we denote a season by a few food items and winter here definitely means Christmas cake. There are multiple bakeries…