Why 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…
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Continue Reading…or as minions say, “Mughlai Parantha”, to which my response is that there is no such thing! There only exists The Moglai Porota. The tongue twisting finesse of ‘Mughlai’ has long been subsumed by the rounded sweetness of the Bengalified ‘Moglai’! Do not undermine its pedigree. It was born in the royal kitchen of Emperor…
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Continue ReadingPujo is a spider web of memories and longings for people who enveloped my life in love. The love stayed behind as a lot of these people exited the realms of tangible. Baba, Dadumoni, Thamma, Dadubhai, Bimalanghu Jethu, Jethimoni…there are so many memories that these wonderful people made with their ready wit, zest for life…