In Tangra, a predominantly Chinese locality, chowmein and fried rice are offered as bhog at the local Kali temple. In Mominpore, bakeries like K. Ali sell German bread alongside Christmas cake. Anglo-Indian households are known to make Bengali rice cakes or pithas at home. And the most famous example of all: Nahoum’s, a Jewish bakery, has Muslim bakers and mostly Hindu customers.
A city that eats together stays together. Kolkata remains a glowing example of communal harmony in times when the rest of India is getting increasingly polarized on religious lines.