Anyone up for Netaji er Peyaji…?

An essential bangali adda is incomplete without exchange of political debates over fried tele bhaja and a cup of piping hot tea in matir bhaar. Ask me…I can even become a better politician than Modiji if given a cup of good bharer cha!! Oh and when we speak of tele bhaja and chanachur, Lakshmi Narayan…

A legend that endured for centuries… Radhu Babu’s tea shop

It is said that in the year 1933 Radha Kishore Datta who was an ardent and firebrand revolutionary devoted to the cause of India’s freedom had migrated to Kolkata from Purulia via Bankura to set up one of Kolkata’s of the first tea shop that came to be known as Radhu Babu Chayer Dokan. His…

Bharer Cha r Bapuji Cake

Kolkata, India’s former capital is the only place that stubbornly keeps one foot in the past, where the tradition has been preserved. Tea drinkers here, swear by the superiority of the Clay cup or Matir bhar. If you happen to be in the City of Joy-Kolkata and have stepped out early morning, you will definitely…