There are some characteristics about Kolkata and Kolkatans that are hard to unnotice.
Like the wrinkled, sooty buildings along the drive from Howrah (Howda, for the uninitiated). These (possibly) septuagenarian (or possibly older-than-Tagore) structures combined with the all-pervading fishy smell tend to give you an idea what this city might be missing. Some of these back streets tend to remind you of Mumbai. The resemblance ends when you realize that the only place where you might possibly have encountered the fishy muggy feeling would have been at VT during those morning hour rushes! You wouldn’t exactly be arrested if you thought all building work here stopped way back in 1947. Only till you get to the business districts ofcourse. Park Street, Camac Street…
There is the hipper-than-most-metros scene at Park street…. (To be continued)
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