Food and Drink
All About Kolkata's Nolen Gur, A Sweet Winter Delight You Can’t Miss
Notun gur or 'new jaggery' sets off Kolkata's sweetest season, winter, the time for all things delicious
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Relax Amid Old World Charm At Balakhana Villa In West Bengal
The 18th-century villa in Maheshganj, Nadia, is a picturesque summer retreat away from Kolkata's busy city life
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Book Review - The White Umbrella Carrying Pavlova from Peshawar to London
Despite its gentle idealism, this is certainly not a childrens book because many of the references will be unfamiliar to the average child and also because some of the endings are not happy. Sewell is better known for his art criticism
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Book Review - The Longest Kiss The Life and Times of Devika Rani
The Longest Kiss is as much a story of the setting up of Indian cinema as it is the story of the actress who became a studio head
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Book Review Desi Delicacies
Desi Delicacies has a deeper purpose behind it to record culinary memories, local food heritage and forgotten grains
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Book Review The Indian Pantry
Uncover everything in the culinary universe from food fads to myth busters through a curation of Vir Sanghvis newspaper columns in this book
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Book Review Bells of Shangri-La Scholars, Spies in Tibet
Parimal Bhattacharya tells a riveting tale of two men exploring Tibet of the bygone era
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Revisit ancient Kalkatta with a Marwari family
Supriya Newar, a Marwari from Kolkata takes us back to the Kalkatta of yester years when the non Bengali speaking population were trying to fit into their surroundings.
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Book Review Bhagwaan Ke Pakwaan
A bouncy and quirky narrative brings flavour and history to the food of communities inhabiting the various corners of India