Here are pictures from his ‘annaprashan’, the rice-eating ceremony done in traditional Bengali style. It was a traditional Bengali ceremony where the parents and the entire family were all ...

The ‘annaprashan’ is an important milestone in the Bengali Hindu culture, which is also called the ‘mukhebhat’ or ‘mamabhat’, where the child's maternal uncle or maternal grandfather ...

Annaprashan is a Sanskrit word which literally means “grain initiation”, when babies feed of rice. It is variously referred to as mukhebhaat in Bengali, choroonu in Kerala and bhaatkhulai in ...