Receta Gota sheddho / casserole of whole lentils and boiled whole vegetables – traditions reinvented

Gota sheddho / casserole of whole lentils and boiled whole vegetables – a tradition reborn Cultural diversity gives India a unique flavour and richness. Often with in the same community or region, the differences in culture, traditions, rituals and beliefs are so divergent from each other giving a different entity altogether. Like in Bengal, where Ghotis (those originate in West Bengal) and Bangal culture (people of East Bengal before partition of India) are so different from each other that we often remain ignorant of each other’s cultural values, food and rituals until the amalgamation happens in form of marriage or through other medium of cultural reciprocity. In my Bangal home, we had never heard about this ritual of eating gota…