I have been in search of tender rattan shoots, known as ‘baet aga’ in Bengali and ‘betgaaj’ in Assamese, for a few years now. A rare vegetable that I last ate a few decades back, and have been unable to find since. The shoots are available for a short season, and only in the few…
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Continue ReadingWhy do we offer food to the Gods? There would be a lot many reasons assigned to this based on the lens we don while answering the question. One way of looking at it is that our Gods are anthropomorphized forms of our fears and uncertainties. For the primitive society dependent completely upon the elements…