CITY OF JOY

Being a Bengali,I have always been outside of bengal...so i am the so called “Probashi Bangali”.Of course we used to come here for our holidays.

This city has got immense pleasure and warmth.We can find happiness in almost every street here.

French Author Dominique Lapierre named it very correctly indeed.It is a "City of Joy".Not only Durga Puja or Christmas..Here everyday seems to be happier and happier.

Oh yes..n btw.. I dint have even my dadu thakuma bari here... so we are very much probashis.But yes my mother always said that finally,,at the end of the day we should come back to this place..because..come on this is our kolkata..(thats what my mother actually used to say)so here we are.

My early memories (like around 23 to 20 yrs back) of this city as like..i used to come here to my aunt’s home...my pishi...a proper North Calcutta...(oh dis north n south kolkata..as a fact..i became aware of this in 6 months)..so very heritage n historical kolkata..big houses... big windows...devdas styled homes...

My whole idea of Kolkata was then..Howrah Bridge,rolls,biryani and shopping..nothing more than that..I loved being here... seeing the streets from these big windows...oh yess.. those yellow taxis... that was kolkata for me..

Fast forwarding...present day...

I knew only 4% of Kolkata..It is much more than that..

If u want to go through Kolkata...U really have to be a early riser... rise early... n start..

Streets r filled up with d smell of kachuri....I don't know...but that smell...is a magnet.. u really will be drawn to that... even if its 5 in the morning... that smell is there..

Oh yes..btw.. kolkata street..u can start your discussion anywhere..everywhere here... n there will be always people to join u... say a topic.. n we r there..bang on..!!

there is a coffee house in every street... :-)

People here are busy but they always have time to stop n look what is there in their favorite sweet shop..sweets r our integral part..!!We shall not discuss on the origin of Rasogolla...but I can say..if there will be any competition ever. to eat them. we can nail it...Nail it like anything..

I now can tell you why Kolkata is called the city of joy... U can very well see that on d streets out here.. people love their streets.. They enjoy being out here... Just walk down the streets.. u can feel peace... or much appropriately joy...They can actually cheer u up in a certain way...

then as Decembers make an entry.. people head towards PARK STREET. a must in Christmas time.. we can give competition to any city in the west.

People say Love is in the air.. Feel it here...VICTORIA OR PRINCEP..doesn't matter... GARIAHAT..SHYAM BAZAAR also is filled by it...

What I can see is that Whether Kids,Teens,Youth,Aged ones..Kolkata provides Joy to each and every section of people.This city serves everybody.

LOVE YOU KOLKATA..!!

CITY OF JOY...VERY TRUE...