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Kakali Roy Chowdhury Ingredients: Spaghetti – 500g Minced meat – 450-500g Olive oil – 2 Tbsp Onion – 1 Garlic – 3-4 cloves Tomato purée – 300g Herbs (Thyme, Rosemary) – 1/2 tsp each Cheese, grated Method: Boil Spaghetti al dente. Add a little olive oil to the spaghetti so that it doesn’t stick. Boil […]

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The word ‘Kathak’ has originated from the word ” KATHAKAAR” or story-teller.  In ancient times there were dancers, who used to narrate different stories from mythology and history and depicted those stories with hand gestures and ‘abhinaya’. During the journey through different reigns, the dance form has developed after influence by various foreign elements like […]

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Sreyashi Mitra INGREDIENTS :- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoon (125g) sugar 2 1/2 Tablespoon Cocoa Powder 2 Tablespoon Cornflour 1 1/2 teaspoon instant coffee* or 2 tsp Vanilla essence 2 1/2 cups full fat milk ( 625 ml) 70 grams dark chocolate finely chopped 2 Tablespoon butter (28g) at room temperature METHOD :- Combine the […]

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Sanchari Goswami Majumdar Entertainment is an essential part of our life. According to Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer -“Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress”. In my previous article, I mentioned that there are two most popular forms of entertainment […]

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Krishna Sengupta Ingredients (with measurements):    1. Refined Oil ~ 1/2 Cup.   2. Garlic ~ 8 Pieces.   3. Onion ~ 1 No. Large.   4. Green Chillies ~ 6 Nos.   5. Mushroom ~ 100 gms   6. Chicken Sausage ~ 100 gms   7. Capsicum ~ Red ½, Green ½, Yellow ½ […]

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  Soumya Mukherjee Just a few days ago I managed to escape the lockdown and join the LOH in Kolkata at long last. We had been working in different cities the last few years and I was looking forward to getting together again post-retirement but Covid had played spoilsport. The last few years of staying […]

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Ayan Majumdar Unprecedented times have come upon us these couple of months. The whole world is facing an invisible enemy in the form of a virus which is termed as pandemic by the World Health Organization. People are requested to stay at home and not to go anywhere else except the roof of your own […]

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Bolai Chatterjee Kazi Nazrul Islam’s uncompromising attitude towards secularism never permitted any particular community to claim him and he continues to remain an important symbol of unity for Bengalis on both sides of the border. As the world is treading the dreadful path to be broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls, it is […]

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  Soumya Mukherjee During the recent catastrophe that hit our country, the entitled classes in urban India exposed their true nature. The obscenely rich tycoons, the privileged babus, the glitterati, the chattering classes, the ivory tower intellectuals, the drawing-room socialists, and the political parties all displayed their utter callousness, complete selfishness and criminal disregard for […]

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Tapan Kumar Bose Dear readers of Dukalom, I never had the luxury going through much of the works of the rebellious poet Kazi Nazrul Islam but my latent interest quietly sprouted during the past few weeks of compulsive worklessness. Kazi Nazrul Islam or ‘Dukhumia’ as he was known, was born on 24th May, 1899 at Churulia […]

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