Prinsep Memorial Heritage Site. This is the name given to the Indian Army’s ambitious plan to turn the area around Prinsep Ghat into a world-class heritage site. Nowadays any new plan to facelift Kolkata’s image is promptly termed world-class whether it deserves so or not. But that doesn’t mean the city lacks incredible landmarks that […]
Changing skyline = More chaos on road
Who will change Kolkata’s skyline? For sure it’ll not be the doing of one or 2 entities. But if there’s one company that will corner the lion’s share of the glory, it must be the DLF India. In today’s TT, the sum of money flaunted as DLF’s proposed investment in and around the city for […]
Howrah station from the river
If you haven’t seen Howrah station for a long time from the place this image has been shot, blame it on the authorities. They are callous, and everyone knows that. But can they be as callous as hiding a beauty from the view and promote some ugly shanties in its place? They do that as […]
From Pass Pass to hotel
Well, it’s not literally the ashes. It’s not a ruin, not even a haunted place that will make way for 2 towering buildings. The Airport Hotel is however destined for journey into oblivion, rather obliteration. Its new owner, the makers of Rajnigandha, Tulsi and Pass Pass, the Dharampal Satyapal group (DS group in short), has […]
Hiland Park
Though Udoyan, The Condoville of Ambuja Realty close by is the first signature project of large-format organized housing complex in the city, it is the Hiland Park that showed the ‘vertical path’ for housing. Its 9 buildings tower from being 18-storey (Ridge, Loch, Isle and Glen) to 28-storey high (Peak). If Hiland Park’s vertical ‘take-off’ […]
Russel Street to Race Course
Some time back there was whiff in the air that the government is planning to convert the scantly used race course into a sports complex. The contention was that racing is an elite pleasure/occupation and in any case it is a dying sport in the city. Though government’s writ cannot run in this case since […]
Tata Centre
One of the most-clicked modern ‘office building’ in the city must be the Tata Centre near Birla Planetarium. I can think of at least 3 reasons for the discretion. Built in 1963, the Tata Centre is perhaps the oldest skyscraper of its type in the city. It is an important landmark and is located at […]
Howrah Station going vertical?
Howrah is often called Kolkata’s twin. There is however less similarity between the two except chaos, which is way above the standard that Kolkata maintains. A city is best reflected at places where many people come and go. Howrah Station, rather its chaotic outside, is a prime example of urban decay that the city suffers […]
Land for Milon Mela?
The Maidan used to marauded every winter for Kolkata’s myriad fairs among which the most prestigious would be the Kolkata Book Fair. This year it was different. In response to PIL by noted environmentalist Subhas Datta, the High Court decided time has come for the book fair to shift from Maidan. Post HC decision, the […]
Sotheby’s auction for KMOMA
A few hours back at Sotheby’s in New York about 100 Indian artworks have been put on auction in aid of KMOMA, the upcoming art museum in Kolkata. KMOMA, or Kolkata Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, the first of its kind in eastern India is planned at Rajarhat for which the WB government has already […]
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