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The rosogolla's bittersweet beginning: How a Kolkata confectioner created the dessert
Amita Ghose • 7 years agoWho knew a sweet like the rosogolla would be the focus of such a bitter dispute between two Indian states? | #FWeekend
Watch: Syria's famed sweets are bringing smiles back once again
• 7 years agoIndia celebrates Diwali, the festival of lights, with great enthusiasm
Fp Staff • 8 years agoDiwali, the festival of lights, was celebrated with pomp and religious fervour all across India on Thursday
You are not alone in your resistance against sweets this Diwali. Check out this video for some instant inspiration!
Sponsored • 8 years agoWho moved my sandesh cheesecake: Indian desserts aren't faring well in fusion cuisine
Madhulika Dash • 9 years agoWhen you try to mix around Indian desserts unmindfully, what you end up with is a ‘gulab jamun cronut’ or a ‘sandesh cheesecake’. It’s a mélange all right, but calling it modern is misguided!
No double Diwali for the vanquished: Despondent BJP cancels order placed for sweets, firecrackers
Fp Archives • 9 years agoA despondent BJP on Sunday cancelled an order placed for laddoos and firecrackers after trends showed the Grand Alliance was set to form the government in Bihar while their party was a distant second.
PM Modi greets Pakistan on their Independence Day
Fp Archives • 10 years agoPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday greeted the people of Pakistan on their Independence Day.
The unkindest cut: 'Rasagolas' are not Bengali after all
Sandeep Sahu • 10 years agoHistorical evidence unearthed by researchers and scholars in the recent past leave very little room for doubt that the sweet voted India’s National Dessert in a nationwide survey done by MUDRA for Outlook magazine in 2010 had its origins in neighbouring Odisha at least a century and half before 1868 when Nobin Chandra Das is supposed to have ‘invented’ it in his sweetmeat shop in Kolkata’s Sutanati.
Eid celebrated across India but no exchange of sweets at Pakistan border
Fp Archives • 10 years agoMuslims across India on Saturday celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Tight security arrangements were made at many places to ensure that the festival passed off peacefully, but protests broke out in Jammu and Kashmir in which a few people were injured.
India, Pakistan troops exchange sweets along LoC on Republic Day
Fp Archives • 10 years agoIndian and Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC) today exchanged sweets at three places in Jammu and Kashmir on the occasion of Republic Day.