It was sweet victory for West Bengal after a bitter feud over one of India’s most celebrated desserts. We are very happy and proud that #Bengal has been granted GI status for rosogolla,” West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee wrote on Twitter after the news broke. In response, the West Bengal government quoted 19-century history to claim the rosogolla was invented by Nabin Chandra Das, a famous sweetmeat maker, in 1868. One of them, a descendent of Nabin Chandra Das, thanked the West Bengal government for its proactive role in the fight. “The government took all related documents and information from us to authenticate the claim that Nabin Chandra Das was indeed the inventor of rosogolla,” Dhiman Das, director of KC Das Sweets, said.

Source: Hindustan Times November 14, 2017 07:47 UTC