Sagnik: i liked chennai

but oh ho ho

calcutta is calcutta

and you kow what

u shud go there during the rains

calcutta comes alive during the rains

the city just sprouts greenery everywhere

gauravchatterji: To Each his own..

Sagnik: and its like one big daawat!

the gastronomic's delight

!

the street food is in a league of its own

oh sweet jesus

but tell me something

do u have anyone in kolkata to stay with?

gauravchatterji: Yes.. I am told that we have a few relative but I have never met them.. So But I also have a very few friends so may be I can stay with them

Sagnik: hmm

take a break and go stay in kolkata during the rains

go sit next to the ganges when its raining

are you a people person or an aloof character?

i am more of a loner

so i liked sitting there alone

and watch the steamers go by

and the rain lash the riverfront

calm seree

serene

its like you have been transported back to the 19th century

nothing has actually changed in kolkata

steeped in colonialism

mad about football and street food

mad about beautiful bengali boudis

young ladies wearing laal paar shaari

and dhunuchi naach

durga pujo and chowmein from the road

mad mad mad jams

and frenetic policemen

the querulous bengali babu and the witty college going student

kumartuli, where you can see how the Durga prathimas are made

and the hardships when they dont sell

the stark contrast of the red brick buildings of the Writer's contrasted with the all glass Tata Centre

Babi Nobis and Jadu Babu Latu Babu

Robi Thakur and Binoy Badol Dinesh

Surya Sen and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Kolkata is, in sentence, a minboggling cornucopoiea of the old, the new, the rich, the poor, the east, the west, the Hindoos, Mussalmans, Sikhs, Christians, Zoroastrians, the street food, the French connection and the British Raaj, the Kolikata, the Sutanuti, the Gobindopur and the one city in the whole wide world where you have it all! ALL of it!

I miss Kolkata! :(

Love,

Evo