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Halloween Sweets Remind An Indian Candy Lover Of Home

Oct 31, 2024 | indiacurrents.com | Madhura Bandyopadhyay

Candy remains a distinct memory of my very first week in the U.S. It was a university town. As a graduate student who had just arrived from India, one of our “seniors” from the Indian Students’ Association drove us to a nearby big box store to buy comforters and trash cans and such mundane necessities of daily life. I remember the candy aisle from that day.
Durga Puja 2024 at Times Square in New York: A Visitor’s Account

Oct 11, 2024 | americankahani.com | Madhura Bandyopadhyay

Durga Puja is the quintessential Bengali festival. It has been an occasion for the public performance of religion and art and enthusiasm for a long time in Bengal. It is now well known beyond the South Asian context even without the attention it recently got as an item on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list.
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Sep 2, 2024 | outlookindia.com | Madhura Bandyopadhyay |Joanna Lobo |Waquar Habib |Is'haq Bhat
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Sep 2, 2024 | outlookindia.com | Madhura Bandyopadhyay |Joanna Lobo |Waquar Habib
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Sep 2, 2024 | outlookindia.com | Madhura Bandyopadhyay |Joanna Lobo |Shreya Cheema |Waquar Habib
Memory’s Oasis: Growing Up In Sealdah Railway Officers Colony In Kolkata

Sep 1, 2024 | outlooktraveller.com | Madhura Bandyopadhyay

If you ever visit the concrete jungle around Sealdah station in Kolkata, you will see swarms of people packed into the roads moving in streams under a roaring monster of a flyover, a sea of heads making little eddies around stationery hawkers standing beside their tarpaulin-covered stalls, while street mongrels sleep in supreme nonchalance beside open dumpsters.