“I have leased about 150 date palm trees at the rate of Rs 150 per tree. Between 12 noon to 5pm every day, I cover about 75 trees, cutting the right part of the plant body so that the sap can fl...

Bengali literature has been quite key in establishing the dominion of gur. ‘Kintu shobar chaite bhalo — pauruti aar jhola gur,’ Sukumar Ray wrote in his celebrated book of nonsense v...