How to spend a perfect weekend in Kolkata: 2 days Itinerary
This blog is for a first time visitor to Kolkata who wants to explore the heritage corners of the old city, eat amazing Bengali food, explore the colonial heritage of Kolkata and loves to explore by foot, even photo-walks! This is an ideal weekend itinerary for Kolkata. You can always extend your stay and visit […]
Ultimate Travel Guide to Sapa in North Vietnam: Things to do in 3 days
About this blog: In this Sapa Travel Guide, we tell you about the best things to do in Sapa, including easy day hikes, best places to eat and shop at, unique flora and fauna and quaint villages located at the folds of Fansipan mountain range. Unlike the rest of Vietnam, Sa Pa features a unique […]
Top 10 Heritage Saree Shops in Kolkata for the Best Bengali Saree (Durgapuja Special)
About this blog: Durgapuja is knocking at the door. This is the time of buying sarees in Kolkata and West Bengal. As Bengali we have a few favourite saree shops in Kolkata. They have been running the show for a little more than eight decades. These are some of the heritage saree shops that we […]
Top 20 Most Popular Bengali Dishes You Must Try when in Kolkata!
Bengali Cuisine is rich in taste and culinary heritage, bearing a turbulent memory of partition of the subcontinent, displacement, and a longing to stay connected with the origin through distinct flavours. As a descendant of a Bangal family whose ancestral roots are deeply spread in East Bengal (now sovereign state of Bangladesh), I have always […]
Kolkata Street Style Chow Mein: Story of a Gradual Evolution!
Recipe for Kolkata Street Style Chinese food. Egg Chowmein Noodle recipe.
How to choose between North Goa and South Goa: An Insider’s Advice!
Which place in Goa is better the north of Goa or the south of Goa? Which place in Goa is better for honeymooners? North Goa is better than south Goa?
30 Things That will Happen in Kolkata When lockdown Ends
Look, I am going to be candid here. It sucks to be at home, day in day out, under the lockdown. And be scared. And look at the phone screen all the time, whether Netflixing or searching for Corona memes or something else. Whatever. Time to time, Trump or others make appearances, with their bat […]
Saras Mela: a Winter Handicraft Fair in Kolkata
About this blog: Indian folk art is not just sustainable, they are ecologically made out of scraps and take unforeseen aesthetic shapes. often times, they are the yield of a thriving cottage industry. Women folks of a village make them in their lone time, in between household chores and performing mammoth other responsibilities, which range […]
A Death, Indian Spring and a month in Kolkata: Life in the Times of Corona!
[This is NOT a blog post to tell you to travel or not during the worldwide breakout of Covid 19 pandemic. I am writing this from a lock-down house in Bangalore. This is just an account of how life panned out in past one month, with a series of events occurring while Corona Virus took […]
Chittoda’s Dokan at Dacre’s Lane: Home to Kolkata’s Finest Street Food!
About this blog: Kolkata, the grandmother of all Indian mega-cities, has received many an accolade for her intense street food culture. Dacre’s Lane in Kolkata is one of the oldest surviving street food hubs, that traces back history in the eventful days of British Raj. The fact that Dacre’s Lane features few century old food joints, which […]