The copious young clouds of the Bengali month of Asharh gathered in the sky. An inexplicable darkness crystallized in Charu’s room. Near the open widow, she bent over a notebook, scribbling in it, lonely, lost in her own furtive world. She didn’t notice when Amal surreptitiously
Sumana Roy’s first book, How I Became a Tree, a work of non-fiction, was published in India in February this year. Her poems and essays have appeared in Granta, Guernica, LARB, Drunken Boat, the Prairie Schooner, Berfrois, and other journals. She lives in Siliguri in
All cottage industries are not lost! Even though modern technology tries to push them into oblivion. Take for example the grit of villagers of Daihat-Beragram, a small village in East Burdwan, where villagers have stuck to their traditional craft of making ropes from jute for
When all is busy celebrating Bengal’s rosogolla winning the GI tag, two persons in Fulia were quietly leading a team making a world record, by creating the biggest Rosogolla of the World. And what was needed to make it? 5 person, 25 assistants, 7 kg cottage
Jhalmuri-wallahs have dotted streets and lanes of Kolkata since time immemorial, precisely since World War II, when this tangy, hot and sweet nutritious street food was introduced by immigrants from neighbouring Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. These days, each Kolkata neighbourhood proudly boasts of their ‘Jhaalmuri
Rosogollar Columbus…. Baghbazaar er Nabin Das; that’s how the inventor of Bengal’s modern rosogolla was often glorified. But flipping through the pages of history actually throws up a different story, of how Nadia brought in the art of making rosogolla in the last part of
Come December, and you will get a chance to buy fish from the state’s fishery department just with a touch of an app on your mobile. You do not need to go to the market again. The fisheries department will celebrate the Fish Festival in
Argentine director Pablo Cesar’s new film Thinking of Him, an Indo-Argentine co-production, will be screened on November 28, as the closing film of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which begins on November 20 at Goa. The film explores the relationship between iconic Indian
Jubilation and celebration continues across the state, as Bengal clenched the GI tag for Rosogolla. But what is GI and why this sudden need for the tag? The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 (GI Act) is a sui generis Act of
Now that officially Rosogolla has been declared to be Bengal’s, food lovers would undoubtedly take to that sweet delicacy. But rosogolla doesn’t necessary be had in the quintessentially Bengali way. Thanks to a city girl, Swati Saraf, Kolkata has for a few years witnessed rosogollas