I had never explored Tiretta Bazar China Town, I didn’t know about the wealth of sandesh varieties of north Calcutta. I learnt about all that much later, from reading about home in far away New York. There, at Cheburechnaya, I had the lamb chebureki, which is basically a monster-sized samosa and lamb pelmeni or lamb dumplings in chickpea soup. Very close to New York University, in East Village, there were these two streets that constituted Little India. A master’s student from Pakistan took me to a Pakistani-Punjabi food joint called Lahore, that was popular with cab drivers.

Source: The Telegraph April 12, 2026 02:51 UTC