Hilsha Machh

Hilsha Machh hails from the riverine country of South Bengal. He is an expert navigator by profession, a procreator of multiple generations of Pisces, and spends a good amount of the year out in the salty waters of the Bay of Bengal. In his free time, he likes to ruminate on sociopolitical matters concerning Bengal, and takes a keen interest in the culinary arts of that land.

Admonishing Abinash

[Some context to the piece: Bengali Hindus, the indigenous people of Bangladesh, now on the verge of extinction, are once again facing a spate of brutal attacks across the Sheikh Hasina-led country at a time of celebration of the community’s biggest religious festival – the Durga Puja. Reports accompanied by photographs and videos of vandalised […]Read More