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Syrup Filled Dumplings - Rasgulla

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Hello Folks!!! Last evening my sister and I were fishing through our cupboard to find something interesting. To pass our time and do something creative, we thought of going through our old stuff. We rediscovered our long forgotten board games and thought of playing chess for a while. This reminded me of an incident. When I was little, the Bishop of Francistown once came to our home and I was so afraid of him. The kind and gentle Bishop Frank asked me why I was scared. I told him that I was scared because the 'bishop' kills. Poor Bishop Frank had a hearty laugh and said that he only kills flies! The game of chess, the bishop, rook, knight and pawn still evokes a sense of mysterious charm and fascination within me.  My sister being smarter, each move of hers looked like a well planned trap to capture my kingdom and establish her dynasty. Her eyes bolted across the board, measuring the little distances and making clever calculations to note safe points for her knight to take shelt...