Calcutta - The City that Joys !!

I am still calling it Calcutta ,because the British legacy is more important for the city than the current transformations happening there.
Let me list down the places , i still remember 15 years after i visited the place for 2 weeks :
1) Chowringee -- Chowk and ghanta ghar..(Quite common with legacy cities)
2) Esplanade Metro railway station
3) Park Street
4) Kalighat
5) Howrah..its calcutta only...i don't think ..that Calcutta as a railway station is as popular as Howrah
6) Birla Planetorium - Class 5th folks do like planets..No doubt
7)Victoria Palace
8) Metro and Tram-- Even these are places of interest, if you were living in India
in the 80s and 90s.
9) Indian Museum - 2hrs tak ghoomta raha still did not visited it properly.
10) Botanical Garden and Zoo -- Only place in the list , where didn't went.

Well we went to Calcutta for one among papa's several trips outside the tinsel town of Shaktinagar.
All the above places of interest were and are unique with Calcutta.
Despite coming with a list of 10 places,I am sure I have only covered an iota of the city landmarks.

But the joy part of the city lies in its people-- intellectual men and beautiful women.Despite that , the city witnesses some of the most fabulous bandhs.
This has more to do with the adda psyche/fighting/questioning/debating spirit of the people there.I stil can't figure which one of these is correct.

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Anonymous said…
Well written article.
9:52 PM
Unknown said…
U gave us a short virtual visit through ur article
5:30 AM
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