Although "adda" is a beloved pastime throughout Kolkata, the long, cerebral conversations that the city is famous for started to become an issue during Covid-19. On 22 March 2020, the first day of the ...

It’s hard to enumerate all the salient features that mark a Bengali — love for Tagore, PhDs, football, nicknames, argument, and addas don’t even start to cover it. But author Sudeep Chakravarti makes ...

To celebrate the Bengali new year, the Rotary Club of Kolkata Urbana hosted a unique event with the right mix of adda, music and food at Urbana Club banquet on May 4. Speaking of diverse cultures and ...

A writers' adda in Kolkata; and Sanjeev Sanyal. The adda has echoes in other countries too: from the tertulia bars of Spain to the Izakaya diners of Japan to Hong Kong's teahouses, Cha chaan teng, ...

Mojlishi adda (informal chat sessions) with mouth-watering food and cha is a quintessential part of the Bangali experience, and is wonderfully captured in novels and stories from West Bengal. This is ...

As an antidote to loneliness, the Bengali adda culture has no equal. Adda is a way of life and key to happiness for many Bengalis. Adda can be characterised as the practice of friends gathering ...

With the Bengali New Year, Noboborsho knocking on our doors, memories of past celebrations and the plans for the next ones rule our hearts. This seems like the best occasion to get to know what this ...

This form of leisurely chatter, immensely popular and peculiar to the Bengali cultural ethos and ethics, has now received a fresh lease of life with the reopening of the den synonymous with it The ...

Telugu television Shilpa Chakraborty has won a million hearts with her anchoring stint over the years but she is still a Bengali at heart. On the occasion of the Bengali New Year (April 14), we got ...

Mohamed Rashid loves Indian food, but he also loves his Bengali food, which people always consider “Indian.” Bengali cuisine is different, and their need to have that recognized inspired Rashid and ...