Autumn in India is all about festivals. Every day brings in the smell of the coming festivities, the joys and the of course the food. Shopping, visting places, meeting relatives and friends,travelling, pandal hopping, worshipping the goddesses, painting the house, coloring rangolis, eating, cooking -  all comes as if in a package in this festival season.

For the last couple of days I had been doing all these. Visiting my native was one of the main dos in the list. I visited Kolkata, my hometown. As you all feel when you …

Birthdays are special to everybody. Where ever you are and whatever state you are in everybody wants to celebrate ones birthday in the possible way. I am absolutely no exception to this. Yesterday was my birthday and of course I enjoyed it. Enjoyment and cooking – I can not keep these two words separately, so had to cook something. The festival season and also for my blog event in mind it was an unanimous decision to prepare something sweet.
Serves 4

Ingredients:
Milk (Dudh): 1 litre
Caster Sugar (Guro Chini): 50 gms
Eggs (Dim): …

With the fall of autumn festivals are in the air. Lines of Puja and festivities come and go. This is the time of the year when we all come out of our regular routines and spend some time with family and friends. When it comes about enjoying with our near and dear ones, we just can not leave apart our sweet tooth. Sharing gifts and sweets are a main event of this festival season.
This event is to tickle that child inside us, who always want to indulge in sweet, never …

Whole year long every Bong waits for the Durga Puja to arrive and just within 4 days the festivity all over. Saptami, Ashtami, Nabami and the last day Dashami makes the end of all these grandeur. As the mythology says Goddess Durga bids farewell to her parents’ home and goes back to Kailash where her husband Lord Shiva resides. Puja in Kolkata is always special. Here in Bangalore though I got to see three idols and had a little taste of the whole festivity.
Bijoya Dashami starts with the immersion of …

From my childhood I always wished where ever I am I should be at my home in Kolkata for the Durga Puja. We have a century old tradition of worshiping the deity. But, this time it’s a little different. I am away from home for the first time in my life during the Durga Pujas. I am missing every bit of this gorgeous festival.
If you are in Kolkata we’ll never be able to ignore the arrival of this festive season. With the start of September you can feel the Puja …

Durga Puja is a very special occassion for all of us. All year through we wait to spend these 4 days with the best grandeur possible.
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Wait for the special recipes for the Pujas.

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