The My West Bengal Blog
Every Bengali family has a winter argument: Purulia or the sea, Santiniketan for Poush Mela or Bishnupur for the temples, and whether this year’s nolen gur is as good as last year’s. This is where we try to settle some of them.
Posts here are seasonal and practical: where to go, how to get there, what to eat when you arrive. Every route, date and claim is checked against an official or published source, listed at the bottom of each post with the date we checked it.
Purulia in Winter: Red Earth, Cold Mornings, Old Hills
West Bengal’s westernmost district is at its clearest from December to February. Here is where to go, how to get there from Kolkata, and how to fit it into three days.
Blog · Travel · Weekend tripsOut of Kolkata by Friday Night: 12 Winter Weekend Trips
Day trips, one-nighters and two-nighters across West Bengal, sorted by how much time you have, with the train or road route for each.
Blog · Food · WinterNolen Gur: The Sweetness That Has to Be Caught Before Sunrise
Every winter, Bengal’s date palms give up a few weeks of sap. A shrinking band of tappers climbs for it in the dark, and the whole state waits for the first pot of new gur.