Dekho Apna Desh - webinar is being organised on Saturday 11th June 2022 at 1100 hrs, Episode No. 29 on topic, “Taste of Kolkata “,
10 June 2022
To All Members,
Subject Dekho Apna Desh - webinar is being organised on Saturday 11th June 2022 at 1100 hrs, Episode No. 29 on topic, “Taste of Kolkata “,
Dear All
We have received an email from Ministry of Tourism (appended) stating that a webinar is being organised on Saturday, 11th June 2022 at 1100 hrs, Episode No. 29 on topic, " Taste of Kolkata ",
To join the webinar, please register at : : https://bit.ly/TasteOfKolkataDAD
To participate in quiz, please visit : https://bit.ly/DADQuiz
With regards,
Rajnish Kaistha
Hony. Secretary
From: Moutoshi Naskar [mailto:dad.webinar@gov.in]
Sent: 10 June 2022 10:18
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Subject: DAD Webinars with the Guides episode - 29, on 11th June, 2022 - Reg.
Dear Sir / Madam,
As you are aware that Ministry of Tourism organizes Dekho Apna Desh Webinar sessions under various schemes and topics every Saturday. On coming Saturday 11th June 2022 at 1100 hrs, we are going to present Episode No. 29 on topic, " Taste of Kolkata ", when talk about the taste of Kolkata, there are different segment - breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacking, evening tiffins, sweets, tea, Sattu sarbat, Chats, Juices etc. Most of the Bengali households, have handmade bread roti or Luchi (which is a kind of Puri made of refined flour). Street foods of Kolkata: Most of the places, one will have boiled egg, Bread toast/ Bread butter toast and Omelet, Jalebies, Samosa, Puri - Sabji and in some of the places, they make delicious Sattu-Kachori along-with either Pickles or Chai or Masala-tea. Most of the shops in Calcutta serves the milk tea as well as the Lal-Cha or the Black tea or sometimes Lemon & Black Salt are added in the Black-Tea. Samosa and Jalebi can be taken both in the morning and evening as snacks. Some people take the sprouts along with the puffed rice too. There are many health-conscious people. They prefer to take different vegetable juices after morning walk. When it comes to morning, how anyone can miss Balwant Singh Dhaba – famous for its Spicy Ginger tea in the clay pot.
The working class people of Kolkata prefer to have in lunch either the handmade roti or bread or the nan or Dosa-Idli or Rice- Fish with lentils, vegetables or fruits or curd-pressed rice.
The speaker, Ms. Leena Sarkar, from the City of joy Calcutta where past is fondly preserved by the present generation for the future. She completed M. Phil from SOUTH AND SOUTH - EAST ASIAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA.
She is an Incredible India Tourist Guide (IITG), approved and certified by Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. She is guiding since 1997 and loves to share all the information about this wonder which is called Kolkata where guests become extended family members of the city.
She completed her Post Diploma in Photography and helped many guests for various types of photography tours. She loves to do Colonial Heritage walk tour, Food Walk tours of Kolkata as well as ‘Tour In and Around Kolkata’, ‘Little Europe Tour’ which is the French-Dutch-Danish-Portuguese settlements around Kolkata. She also loves to talk about the terracotta work of Bengal and the open-air paradise called Shantiniketan. She also does ‘Port Heritage Cruise’.
Please register here for the webinar: https://bit.ly/TasteOfKolkataDAD
To participate in quiz, please visit : https://bit.ly/DADQuiz
You are requested to make it convenient to attend the same with the above links.
India Tourism offices in India and overseas are requested to circulate the above amongst the tour operators, opinion makers, etc. in the area of their jurisdiction.
IT Division of MOT is requested to amplify the above webinars on the Incredible India website.
Regards
Team MOT
Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav /
Dekho Apna Desh Webinar Series
Ministry of Tourism
Government of India
New Delhi