Kheer - Different Truths

January 6, 2023
Susmita Bhattacharya
Food

Pithe and Patishapta: Winter Celebratory Sweets in Bengal during Poush Sankranti

With Poush Sankranti around the corner, Susmita tells us about Pithe and Patishapta, the celebratory sweets in Bengali homes, all over the world. Read more in the weekly column,...

October 3, 2022
Susmita Bhattacharya
Nostalgia, Religion, Special Feature

Durga Puja Nostalgia: Opening an Old Album and the Paroxysms of Emotions

Freshly returned from South America, first time Durga Puja to experience yet the vast unsettled feeling from being brought to a quite stringent and conservative environment in Batanagar from the...

July 4, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food, History & Culture, Religion

A Bowl of Kheer Loaded with Legends, Myths, Rituals, Traditions and History

The first mention of Kheer may be found as the Sanskrit word Kshirika, meaning a dish prepared with milk, in the fourteenth-century Padmavat of Gujarat. Known by various names...

Pithe and Patishapta: Winter Celebratory Sweets in Bengal during Poush Sankranti

Durga Puja Nostalgia: Opening an Old Album and the Paroxysms of Emotions

A Bowl of Kheer Loaded with Legends, Myths, Rituals, Traditions and History

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