Poila Boishakh Bengali Food

Poila Boishakh, the first day of Bengali new year. Bengalees
traditionally celebrate the day with pure Bengali foods. And today's
Bengalee use to taste the most attractive foods of Bengali restaurants
on this day. Aheli of Peerless Inn is one of those rare hotels where
special thali of Bangla meals can be tasted in exchange of only Rs 1200, in an atmosphere of
ancient Kolkata.
Aheli Restaurant in Kolkata is
well known for authentic
Bengali cuisine. Besides
Kewpie's Restaurant, which is
also known for the local
Bengali cuisine, Aheli Restaurant of kolkata stands as
its stiff competitor. To the
epicurean, Aheli restaurant in
kolkata, West Bengal, comes as
a blessing because the city
house plenty other multicuisine restaurant and their own
culture is getting subverted.
Kolkata is the melting pot of
culture. Nonetheless its own
store of delicacies is quiet rich
and nobody can deny that the Bengali cuisines are a must-
have. The Location of Aheli Restaurant in Kolkata. Housed in the peerless Inn of
kolkata which is the place
where Bengali culture of
cordiality is at is best. The Staff
is very efficient and would
always remind you of the rich culture of west Bengal. The
same can be said about the
Aheli restaurant in Peerless
Inn.
The Address: Peerless inn,
12 Jawaharlal Nehru Road,
Kolkata,
West Bengal. The Ambience in Aheli Restaurant In kolkata Reliving the
past heritage and
displaying the terracotta
paintings and wall hangings of
Bishnupur, Aheli restaurant in
Kolkata, West Bengal creates a
very cozy and intimate place to dine in. The staff is dressed in
Bengali-styled clothes, the food
is served in culinary that have
the distinct touch of Bengal,
and even the mannerisms are
quintessentially Bengali. The whole atmosphere is just too
perfectly made and you cannot
but feel that you are really
revisiting ancient Bengal. The special Cuisines: Aheli serves you the choicest
cuisines like maacher sores
paturi, chingri malai curry, ilish
maacher paturi, daab chingri
and so on. However the food is
expensive and marked as AE, DC, MC, V, reservation is a must. So if
you are planning to have
some authentic, conventionally
cooked Bengali cuisine in a
totally Bengali culture then
aheli Restaurant in Kolkata is
the only choice.

--
A. B.

500 Year's Old Nimai Tirtha Ghat - Reminiscences Of Sri Chaitannya Deb

It says that Nimai Sri Chaitannya Deb once came to district Hooghly for the pilgrimage of Tarakeswar. So he bathed in river Ganga on the bathing ghat of Baidyabati. Then had started his journey to Tarakeswar on foot. It took about 12 hours to reach Tarakeswar. Later, the bathing ghat was named on him and now known to all as Nimai Tirtha Ghat. So, the ghat is about 500 year's old. Kabikankan Mukundaram mentioned this ghat in his mangal kabya, about 400 years ago. Raja Harishchandra of Seoraphuly constructed Nistarini Mandir and Bhadrakali Mandir in the year 1827 beside NimaiTirtha Ghat. then, lakhs of pilgrims take bath on river Ganga from this ghat and take holy water, visit Ma Nistarini and Debi Bhadrakali near, then use to go for Tarakeswar on foot to pour that Gangajal on the shiblinga of Baba Taraknath. The pilgrims use to go to Tarakeswar on the month of Shraban (July-August). Pic 1) The gate of Nimai Tirtha Ghat; Pic 2) The pilgrims are taking bath at the said gha

Highest Jagadhatri Idol Of Chandannagar : Fatakgora

No other idol of Jagadhatri will compete in regard to height with the idol of Fatakgora (height: 31 feet). -- A. B.

Kripamoyee Kali Mandir Of Baranagar

Kripamoyee Kali Mandir of Baranagar, popularly known as Joy Mitra Kali Bari, is situated on the bank of river Hooghly at Baranagar of Kolkata. Baranagar is a very old place, more than 500 years ago this place was existed. Famous zaminder Joyram Mitra of Sovabazar established this temple in mid-April of the year 1851. He bought about 3 bighas land at Baranagar from some James saheb and established the temple there similar to Brahmamoyee Kali temple of Mulajor of Shyamnagar.The goddess here is Dakshina Kali (দক্ষিণা কালী). If you walk from 'Kuthi ghat' of Baranagar river bank a few steps ahead, you'll reach to the temple - 171 years old this temple is situated by the side of Hara Kumar Thakur Strand. Twelve temples of lord Shiva are there beside the main temple. The array and formation of these Shiva mandirs are very innovative. Ramakrishna Paramahansa dev used to visit this temple frequently. This temple was erected as 'Navratna' art. But it is not the formal slop

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