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It was inevitable then that when I started to cook, it wasn’t the food of my childhood that I learnt to make, but rather the kinds of dishes that Calcuttans ordered in North Indian restaurants: butter chicken, paneer masala and the like, things we never ate at home but would enjoy every once in a while when we went out. Nor could it have been otherwise, because Bengali ingredients were not available
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This was not the first time that Shoma had been told that the mango tree had an invisible inhabitant: every now and then Husna would light a candle or leave some fruit at the foot of the tree. When asked why, she would say that the offerings were for a being who lived there, a jinn. But the word that Dev had used was ‘jeebi’, which came from the Sanskrit ‘jiva’, meaning ‘living spirit’ or ‘soul’.
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As a professor of marine biology she was accustomed to an outdoorsy life and it was a punishment for to be at home, teaching courses over Zoom. On top of that, she was saddled with the responsibility of running an NGO on the other side of the planet—the Badabon Trust on the island of Lusibari, deep in the mangrove forests of the Sundarban.
Piya’s association with the trust had begun many years ago, when she was
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Piya’s association with the trust had begun many years ago, when she was