Sweets & Desserts

Silao Khaja: The Sweet Pride of Nalanda

Twelve to sixteen paper-thin layers, fried in ghee and touched with syrup. Why the GI-tagged khaja of Silao is Nalanda’s pride.

4 min readNalanda

Sweets & Desserts

Wheat flour, jaggery and ghee pressed into wooden moulds and fried slowly before dawn. Inside the kitchens where Chhath’s thekua is made.

5 min readDarbhanga

Sweets & Desserts

Sesame and jaggery pounded by hand in Gaya’s winter workshops. The story of tilkut, the sweet of Makar Sankranti.

4 min readGaya

Sweets & Desserts

Rice soaked for days, ground, sweetened with jaggery, rolled in seeds and fried in ghee. The slow, patient art of anarsa.

4 min readGaya

Sweets & Desserts

Golden pancakes of flour, milk and sugar fried in ghee, and the Holi tradition of eating them with mutton curry. Bihar’s many…

5 min readPatna

Sweets & Desserts

Pointed gourd scraped, softened, stuffed with khoya and soaked in syrup. The story of one of Bihar’s most unusual sweets.

4 min readPatna