Eggs in my underwear
When I was in the second grade someone told me that if you put a dozen eggs in an incubator, one was bound to hatch.
Grape expectations
How does one describe Grapes? Is it a bunch of purple circles on a page, or the one in cartoons, where the nurse feeds you because your entire body is...
Sunday ho ya Monday roz khao ande
I was served a boiled egg every day when I was in the fourth grade. It was my tea snack without the tea. My parents insisted on it and I...
Malayalis who don’t Exile
An egg is a universe. With fragile shells that are whiter than the teeth of most Indian men and yolks that are the colour of the teeth of most Indian...
Kitchen sink realism hits new levels with the Karawaypala
Karawaypala leaves, the kitchen sink's worst enemy “The sink has clogged again!” I quickly ran downstairs, a long metal wire rocking back and forth with uncertainty and fatigue as I...
The real fruit
“Is strawberry made of straw, if not why is it called so? Was the Jack fruit discovered by Jack, if not why is it known by that name? Are grapes...
E for egg
If the Bengali dinner table were a movie, any fish or mutton dish would play the hero; the mishti (dessert) would be the heroine and the egg curry would be...
Bull’s Eye is always Bull’s Eye and nothing else
Going to a shady café where nobody ever goes, and to eat English breakfast - has become a ritual. While marking my choice of eggs, they always ask me whether...