About

We are Saptarshi and Insiya, co-creators of the YouTube channel Bong Eats, where we cook Bengali home-style family recipes, as well as some of the most beloved dishes found in the myriad streets, cabins and restaurants in Kolkata. We love breaking down recipes into simple, achievable steps, so that anyone, at any skill level, can master them at home.

We are passionate about all aspects of food and cooking, right from procuring and processing ingredients, cooking them, to the social, political and cultural significance culinary habits have on societies and communities.

We started Bong Eats in November 2016, as a side-project alongside pursuing our careers in tech and book publishing, respectively. We taught ourselves video production—from shooting, lighting, editing, colour grading, and sound design, to branding and promotion—from scratch. In 2021, we quit our full-time jobs, not because we didn’t love our careers, but because we had a growing sense that Bong Eats needed our time an attention more than ever.

Today, we continue to post new recipes to our YouTube channel, and on this website. Watch us cook with special guests, and chat with them about food, life and everything else, on our show Rannaghore Ke?. We also run a fun, vibrant members-only community, where we hang out, share tips, tricks, and recommendations, motivate one another through group challenges, and much more!