by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jul 20, 2026 | Food, Foodblog |
The first time I remember hearing the name Nilontika was probably when I was in Class 6. We had a pond at our ancestral home, and one winter my grandfather had introduced what everyone around us called Lylontika spawns into it. Summer vacations were spent almost...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jul 11, 2026 | Food, Foodblog |
Growing up in a Bangal home, eating all kinds of fish wasn’t a choice, it was just how we ate. Bangals are people who migrated from East Bengal, now Bangladesh, before and around the time of Partition. So our dining table was filled with aar, boal, magur,...