Illustrated Scroll Close up of the scroll

A scroll was fashioned out of handmade translucent rice paper from Nepal. The design was planned to combine some favourite recipes of Bengal with a variety of depictions of fish. The quality of writing became an important element of the work and Sanuwar took to artistic writing like fish to water. The text on the scroll talks about the popularity of fish, a shopping list of essential ingredients, and instructions on how to cook the somes dishes from the bengali cuisine. Sanuwar accompanies his artistic script with paintings of people fishing, selling fish in the marketplace, cooking fish in the village, eating it at an urban table, and finally ends with a popular Kalighat school of art image of cats, having enjoyed a tasty meal, dangling skeletons of fish from their mouths.

Close up frame of the market scene.