People

Who you will be dealing with.

Two people run this. A third group — the women of Chauddhachuli who have made bori all their lives — do the actual teaching.

A man sitting cross-legged under a tree, seen from behind, in black and white

Founder

Sandip Maiti

“He grew up watching his mother and grandmother make Gohona Bori as though it were nothing.”

Founder of Turiyo Residency. Thirty years in marketing and advertising before that; now writes as AllMaiti.

Shimul Sarkar

“If you come, he is the person who will teach you.”

Curator of the residency and of the grounds at Turiyo. A sports manager by training, he ran the Khejuri Mini Marathon.

The women who teach.

The craft is taught by women from Chauddhachuli, several of whom came through the Turiyo Foods programme that began with over fifty participants in 2021. This is their craft.

The trainer is Shilpa Sarkar Maiti, Shimul’s mother, who was trained in the craft by his grandmother, Bandana Maiti.

Shilpa Sarkar Maiti, the residency's trainer, seated, in a cream and red sari — Shilpa Sarkar MaitiTrainer, the Gohona Bori residency

Turiyo Foods women holding up jars of their products

Two nights, three or four families, the women who know how.

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