Welcome to East India Company’s Capital of India- Calcutta (aka Kolkata). Well, this is what I said to myself, after landing at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport. I purposely made sure that I avoidDurga Pujatime because, this time the whole city goes crazy in the festive ...
Broadway Hotel– This hotel takes you back into time. Kolkata’s oldest hotel since 193t, I stayed here. It was in an ideal location for me, across the street fromChandni Chowk metro station. An old Ambassador-styled hotel with an attendant in the lift, the rooms feel spacious, clean, ...
During last Eid, we were enjoying our summer holidays in Kolkata – a period I like to ‘brand’ as mysummer hibernationas I go into my reticent creative cocoon. I took theZ-SisterstoMallick Bazarin the Park Circus area. This is essentially a Muslim neighbourhood and the road-side kiosks...