Foods, travels etc.

I love to cook my own food. Here are some photos from my kitchen. I am a supporter of preserving food, culture, and sustainable cooking. Here, you might find foods that are forgotten/rare. I can provide you with a recipe if you drop me an email. Although I keep the recipes documented, I am still in the process of standardizing the measurements (up to my taste). Indian foods do not have standard recipes. Given a food item, there will be a different process in every household to make it. Welcome to the food culture of the Indian subcontinent :)

How a typical Bengali festive platter look like!

Chicken Vindaloo served with rice cooked in coconut milk, and salad

Chicken korma served with saffron rice

Calcutta classic mutton biriyani with chicken rezala and salad

A medley of vegetables and spinach, cooked with lentil paste

Morichkhola: medley of fishes, typically cooked in a clay oven

Bibbya Upkari: Ivy gourd cooked with cashew-nut and coconut; a delicacy from the Saraswat community

Chicken cooked with Kaffir lime and black pepper

Lemon rice, served with chicken kosha

Petai porotta, served with lentil curry

Steamed mango doi with pistachio dust

Idli with mudagai podi

Other than Mathematics, I like going for week-long treks. I have been to Kedarkantha Trek, Har ki Dun-Ruinsara Tal Trek and some others around the Sahyadri mountain range in Western Ghats. I have travelled to parts of Himachal, Kashmir, Kerala, Meghalaya, Sikkim, and many more places in India. All the photos on my page are taken by me :)

In my free time, I enjoy playing Flute, Painting, and Reading Novels (shifting to Non-fiction these days). I completed the Basic Mountaineering Course, from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling.

A poster on Harish-Chandra, demonstrating his contribution to the world of Mathematics. This was a part of Harish-Chandra centenary celebrations, in October 2023. For more such poster, one can drop an email.

I love clicking photos. Here are some of them.

about the cover: Taken on a Goa trip; the butterfly beach