by Anindya | Mar 11, 2019 | Travel |
You might wonder why I have written about this property three times but Raajkutir Kolkata is a property that deserves a multidimensional look. This is a photostory and assuming that you, as a reader would have clicked to see the pictures, I won’t waste much of a...
by Anindya | Mar 6, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
Who has kancha tomato or green tomatoes for lunch as a vegetable? If you had seen the insta stories in www.instagram.com/pikturenama, kancha tomato or green tomato has been one of the many loot of the home grown vegetables which Madhushree got from her home in...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Mar 3, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
What happens when five or six women of different age group gets together? First point of discussion is always the children. The older ones will tell you what to do and what not. The younger ones will defend their actions and so on. Then comes the point when the older...
by Anindya | Mar 2, 2019 | Bhutan, Travel |
We were informed that it would take us two and half hours to reach Punakha Dzong from Taj Tashi Bhutan. In between, we would also visit Dochula Pass but who cares about the distance and time when you have great panoramic views giving you company. There are many...
by Anindya | Feb 28, 2019 | Eating Out, Food |
Halfway through our conversation, I declared – So is Shotkora the cousin of Gondhoraj from other side of the boundary? Nayana di’s eyes lit up with a mischiveous smile and after an initial resistance, she agreed. I was in conversation with Nayana Afroz or...
by Anindya | Feb 24, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
Have you ever watched Cheteswhar Pujara before every delivery he faces? He holds the bat close to his chest, fixes the grip, takes the right hand lowest possible to the neck and the left hand on top of it. I almost follow a similiar ritual when I eat a parshe machh or...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Feb 21, 2019 | Eating Out, Food, Foodblog |
Kolkata Nostalgia is a very powerful emotion and there is abundance of it in Raajkutir’s all day dining, East India Room. It is the stained glass windows and the row of marble fountains that immediately catch your attention, as you move towards East India Room...
by Anindya | Feb 18, 2019 | India, Travel |
My tour to Narendra Bhawan Bikaner has been memorable in many ways and one of them was meeting Mahaveer Swami, the famous miniature painter of Bikaner. The last seven generations of his family has been involved in this form of art and is carrying on his family’s...
by Anindya | Feb 13, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
Valentine’s day and Archies It was on our way back from some work, the car was passing through an Archies Store and I asked Madhushree – Do they still make so much business as before? An Archies store may not mean anything to millennials but anyone born in...
by Anindya | Feb 11, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
The discussion between Amitav Ghosh and Sunita Narayan at Terra Madre Salone Del Gusto had an impact on me in many ways. One of the key takeaway of that session was that in spite of all of us knowing that climate change is the biggest effect that we have had in...