The Singularly Quaint Emotion that is Love Like the changing of seasons, the ebb and flow of tides, the shedding of leaves and the sprouts rising from little seeds, love as an emotion is turbulent and ever-changing. Most of the romances that dominate world literature and media speak of Love and its lethal impact on the hearts and minds of characters. Usually in those stories, love conquers all or destroys all; there’s no in between. Love is also famously documented as dimming down the IQ of most characters (like Romeo from Romeo and Juliet famously swallowing poison and not checking properly if Juliet was even dead, that fool!) But love can be very eccentric. Though we like to pretend otherwise and define it within the bounds of what society at large considers "proper". Then the definition of "proper" changes with passing ages. That is why, we have decided to dedicate this post to the depiction of romantic love through the ages and pages of literature, history and
🥳 নববর্ষ ১৪২৮-এর প্রীতি ও শুভেচ্ছা। 🎊🎉 (Greetings and Best Wishes for Bengali New Year 1428).🥳🎉🎊 The Bengali New Year starts in the month on Boisakh ( বৈশাখ ) which is the first month in the ancient Bengali and Nepali calendar. The occasion is celebrated in various ways but no celebration (and trust me on this that we celebrate LOTS of things) in Bengal is complete without misti / মিষ্টি (sweets) and that's why this article is dedicated to some of them and their yummy 😋😋 looking pics. *** When talking about Bengali sweets😋, Pantua ( পান্তুয়া ) comes into the conversation 💬💬 as much as its more famous cousin Rosogolla ( রসগোল্লা ). And yes, as far as local terminologies are concerned they are cousins. Made up of chhana / ছানা , milk/ দুধ , ghee / ঘি , sugar syrup and sooji / সুজি (semolina), this sweet is of the fried variety in its family and despite being almost mistaken for other very similar looking and tasting sweets, Pantua retains its own distinctive flavour. C