Food and travel with Kanaya

 Covid-19 pandemic led to national lockdown and multiple government restrictions for the safety of the public. You would agree to the fact that many of us took this lockdown as an opportunity and learned new skills, and many of us would curse the period since they were forced to do things that they usually don't do. As I mentioned in my previous blog that my roots belong to Bengal. My father visited by Grandfather's place in early March. And when it was time to return back to Mccluskiegunj , to us; national lockdown was imposed all over India. He was stuck there! Weeks passed, we applied for travel passes for both West Bengal and Jharkhand to bring my Dad back to Gunj . None worked! We waited for a month, thinking some restrictions on travel may be reduced by the Government in the weeks to come. On the contrary, instead of reducing the restrictions, imposed lockdown extended for another month. And this process went on until, the unlock phases began.   Meanwhile, we continued t

14th August, 2020; we were bit ambiguous about tomorrow's independence day celebration at the office. 3/4th of the office staffs were interested to take a day leave. Suddenly, something popped in my head and we decided to do something different this independence day. I mean since our school days, we are habituated  to have samosa  and jalebis  on Republic Day and Independence Day. One of my colleague said Kanaya, let's do something to develop a good bond and affinity toward each other, let's finds ways so that  we spent valuable time and cherish these memories over the time. What else can bring in such affinity apart from food! When shared with other colleagues, many of them agreed on this. Suddenly, like a sea wave on a high tide day, idea popped in my head and we decided to cook typical fried rice with a new variety of cottage cheese, which we later named, Paneer Maharani. Many of you might think, Pane er Maharani...ummm...? Well, so it's started with an idea of ma