The god of sweet things?

Rasogolla's GI tag is no cultural achievement

As long as Bengal had Rabindranath Tagore, Subhas Chandra Bose and Satyajit Ray to remind the world of the innate greatness of Bengali civilisation, the rasogolla was little more than a much-loved, everyday sweetmeat. Like mishti doi, and ilish maach, it merely reinforced the superiority of Bengali cuisine.

But the Bard of Bengal and the state’s first Nobel laureate has been dead 76 years. Despite being in denial for decades, Bengalis have been forced to accept that Netaji has indeed departed this world — though precisely when will forever remain a point of fierce contention. The state’s sole Oscar winner —