by Anindya | May 9, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
What is the tradition of Poila Boishakh or Bengali New year? Other than a few that I remember from my childhood, the pertinent question that needs to be asked is- what is the food tradition of Poila Boishakh? Different houses will have different traditions which have...
by Anindya | May 4, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
I hate fruits. It is a family folklore how much I hated bananas while I was growing up and that formed one of the basis of the first food blog post of this blog. (The pictures are amateurish but we keep it as a proof from where we had started and it is passion and...
by Anindya | May 1, 2017 | Kashmir, Travel, Travelogues |
We met Humayun Jaan at Jan Bakers in very casual and unassuming way, while he was trying to fix some plumbing issues of the store. Kashmir was our first tour after blogging started. And like all bloggers, the mind constantly looks for stories while traveling. Jan...
by Anindya | Apr 23, 2017 | Uncategorized |
Easy peasy lemon squeezy … The little one (now not that little as he turned 5 recently) has been saying this repeatedly for the last one month. He has various sources of learning and God only knows from where he has picked it up. Disney Junior channel, Movies,...
by Anindya | Apr 19, 2017 | Eating Out, Food, Foodblog |
`The recent advent of branded big hotels into the city is only an indication of the growing business; even though to the lay man, it is almost invisible. There must be a logical and genuine reason that many big names like Westin, JW Marriot and Holiday Inn have popped...
by Anindya | Apr 18, 2017 | Greece, Travel, Travelogues |
Do you fall in love with all the places that you travel to? Do you feel like not coming back from a place? I guess that happens every time when you visit a great place of your liking. While we were there, amidst all the memories that we have of good food, night life,...
by Anindya | Apr 13, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
It is that time of the year when all that comprises actual and pseudo bangaliana will start overflowing in various forms. Social media update, dressing in traditional punjabi paijama (we don’t call it kurta pajama but punjabi paijama) or dhuti, Bengali songs...
by Anindya | Apr 11, 2017 | Photoblogs, Photography |
Winters have disappeared from Kolkata! It’s now going to be a long stretch of summer with various degrees of humidity along with sweating, which makes the summer unbearable. Summer continues till the end of October, and although the monsoons come in between, the...
by Anindya | Apr 4, 2017 | Eating Out, Food, Foodblog |
Let’s say you are planning to start a Bengali restaurant What are the things that come to your mind when you start planning the menu? Shukto (quintessentially Bong vegetarian dish made with bitter guard and other vegetables), Alu posto (potatoes with poppy seed...
by Anindya | Apr 1, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
A little prelude Once upon a time, when we were young, we used to meet with friends for Saturday night hangouts at our place. Tugga was a little baby. Hence, the question of doing a late night out of home did not arise. We could not even take him along with us. Being...
Pikturenama is a blog about our travel and food escapades along with stories to share through photography. 
