Durga Puja gift from Hasina: 500 tonnes of hilsa

After a seven-year hiatus, the hilsa catch from Bangladesh’s Padma will entice city gastronomes this Durga Puja. The Sk Hasina government has lifted the ban it had imposed on export of the Padma hilsa to India in 2012. The relaxation, though, is temporary — just for the Puja, the largest festival in Bengal when demand for good food, including hilsa dishes like ilish paturi, bhapa ilish and shorshe ilish, skyrockets.

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