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For Those Who Need Information About Kolkata Passport Seva Kendra

February 3, 2013 By Tania Bhattacharya 12 Comments

Kolkata Passport Seva Kendra, Google Map

It might seem a nightmare, but in reality all you need to know is how the system works when you apply for passports at the Passport Seva Kendras in various cities in India

Filed Under: City, City Life 1, Travel Tagged With: apply passport india, india passport, kendra, Kolkata, old, passport, passport seva kendra, PSK, Ruby, seva

Stopover at Wise Owl Café, Purna Das Road

January 23, 2013 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Wise Owl Cafe on Purna Das Road - an excellent place for hangout in South Kolkata

If you thought that the good old bangali adda would only be complete in a roadside tea stall, think again. You can’t possibly walk past Wise Owl and not feel the urge to be a part of its ambient bonhomie

Filed Under: City, City Life 1 Tagged With: bangali adda, dhaba, kolkata eatery, kolkata restaurant, old

Some Glimpses of Kolkata

January 15, 2013 By Partha Bhattacharya 2 Comments

Kolkata is vivid as much in images as in real life. Much of what we see in the city everyday could be a photographer’s delight as she captures the moment in her lenses. Here is a collection of 5 incredible moments…that perhaps only Kolkata can offer.

Filed Under: City, Cityscape Tagged With: old

How Do We Live In Kolkata?

January 15, 2010 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

When a fire destroys homes of some 450 people, only in Calcutta do people’s leaders stop fire tenders from reaching the site. When an ambulance is desperate to reach a hospital with a dying man in it, only in Calcutta, political activists stop it and think nothing of letting the sick man suffer or even die.

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Creativity, the cornerstone of Kolkata’s Durga Puja

September 26, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya 3 Comments

What is unique to Kolkata’s Durga Puja is the quest for creativity, the insatiable urge to create something new. And it is for this reason that I will always feel that Kolkata’s Durga Puja can perhaps never be paralleled.

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Some glitters of Kolkata That Remain

September 5, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya 1 Comment

That the city’s landmark icons have more or less remained the same over the past several decades is a roundabout indication of the city’s decay that amounts to its failure to build new.

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Kolkata’s old is gold for Christie

August 21, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

This development is welcome for the sake of Bengal art, but then the question is how long the ‘interest’ will sustain. From what understands with a little interest in the subject, Bengal art is relatively cheaper and maybe – as Christie feels – unexplored to a large extent.

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Is Kolkata changing?

August 14, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

A total of Rs.402 crore is budgeted for cleaning just 25km of 88km, 10ft wide sewer. The total cost, money for which is not available yet, for cleaning all the brick sewers, replacing the century-old pumping stations, and cleaning the major canals is pegged at a whopping Rs.2200 crore.

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Buy gold, get illish free

August 8, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

It’s now that commerce peaks. It’s now that thousands of artisans, craftspeople, small merchants, and the like expect to make some money trading their wares, their skill, and above all their hard labor they had put up for this once-a-year grand festival.

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August 1, 2009 – A red-letter day & how!

August 2, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Imagine what the city’s top news item today would be. No prize for guessing right though because the brouhaha over vehicle pollution has been all over us for quite some time. What makes the occasion memorable is that this is the first time in the state in a long, long time that the rule of […]

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