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Essays by Nabanita Sengupta, Rituparna Sengupta and Rupayan Mukhopadhyay
Volume 2 | Issue 11 [March 2023]

Fish Stories
Volume 2 | Issue 11 [March 2023]
Unlike most middle and upper-class Bengali households, we did not grow up with fish. There were days when we did not have it at all. So whenever we visited our family home in the suburbs of Kolkata, our meals would begin with jethima, my aunt, expressing her concern about how fish-starved we were â âHow will you get your nutrition?â was her constant refrain. This complaint in many ways foreshadowed a comment later popular among my Hindi-speaking friends at Delhi University â that consuming fishhead was the source of Bengali intellect and intelligence. …
â Nabanita SenguptaÂ

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Aamarous Pleasures
Volume 2 | Issue 11 [March 2023]
Summers at home in Kolkata are yellow. Mangoes donât grow in our garden; our garden grows in and around mangoes. By early March, soft green leaves appear, soon followed by bunches of mango flowers, their lovely little bouquets all over the tree. Spring is incomplete without admiring the sight of the first few baby mangoes and leaning over from the terrace to inhale their scent. Â Soon, summer kicks in with a vengeance and so does the craving for cool, sweet-and-sour, raw mango recipes: toker dal (mango dal, served cold), aamer tok (watery mango chutney), aam panna (chilled mango drink). The pleasure of savouring farm-fresh produce, direct from tree to table, never fades…
â Rituparna Sengupta