“These sweets were concocted, or invented, at the home of then Raja Bijoy Chand Mahtab, who was receiving Lord Curzon in 1904 at his palace,” Jash said.
Barely a week before the city goes to the polls, the sweet hub has become the latest theatre of the bitter battle between the Trinamul Congress and the BJP.
While the BJP has been attacking Trinamul over a now-defunct “Mishti Hub” built by the Mamata Banerjee government, the Bengal ruling party has accused the saffron camp of knowing nothing about the state’s history and culture.
“The BJP has been trying to get at Trinamul because our attempt to build a Mishti Hub here, like in New Town, did not take off upon completion. The BJP, however, knows nothing about the sweets’ true history, and that of the people here,” said Trinamul spokesperson Debu Tudu, projecting the party as the custodian of the cosmopolitanism in Burdwan town as encompassed by its sweets.
Jute bags for New Town The decision to use these biodegradable boxes and bags was taken at a recent board meeting of the New Town Kolkata Development Authority
The New Town authorities will start distributing bags and boxes made of jute and paper in markets of Action Area I, II and III and urge shopkeepers not to hand out plastic bags to customers, an NKDA official said.
The decision to use these biodegradable boxes and bags was taken at a recent board meeting of the New Town Kolkata Development Authority.
The step is to reduce the generation of plastic waste in the township’s shops, eateries, households and food delivery establishments, the official said.