Aashiyana of Pamela Santanu

Sweet potato dessert

Sweet potato dessert (Ranga Alur Puli) is an age old Bengali dessert – a sweet lover’s delight for sure. Its crispy outer layer mesmerizes gastronomic senses. As for its availability, it is more of a traditional sweet, prepared in households. These days some sweet shops are starting to include this in their repertoire to cater [...]

Hue of the sky

Siliguri is gateway to the North East of India. It is commercial city of North Bengal where tea, timber and transport are the main business. It is a base point to head towards Darjeeling, Sikkim, kalimpong, mirik etc. Besides, it is also the transit point for air, road and rail traffic to the neighboring countries [...]

China rose

Sikkim – Gangtok

My current home in India is Siliguri, north of West Bengal may not be the most alluring for tourist destinations. But it is the most important city in the entire Eastern Himalayas due to its geographical location. As city is unabashedly an industrial centre and gateway to seven sisters of North-East along with Sikkim & [...]

Vacation on the horizon

Yes I am going to take vacations! It has been a while (after May 2005) when we went out from our current address in Paris. In our standard of travelling it is a record for good or bad…that can’t be said. May be it is the effect of Chateau, Bateau, Gateau.We would love to visit [...]

Shan & Pam-The Perfect Wedding

It was the 27th April’02 evening, Every thing was geared up for the Mumbai meeting, Our “Rosy” flower, made “Shan” like a bee humming, Not showing outside, Pam thought it was her prince charming, Santanu was convinced it was the end of  his findings, Gandhiji was nervously smiling, Shan’s mother in law thought it was [...]

Wedding

It all started around very early 2002. After few correspondences between our parents I was asked to come to India in April. After doing some travelling around, on very last day I met Pamela in-person at Bombay on 27th April. It did not took much time for deciding about the biggest step of our life.After [...]