Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Kolkata Tour


Kolkata is India’s largest metropolis -- overcrowded, vibrant, volatile, exciting and charming. It used to be said, What Bengal thinks today, India will think tomorrow and of course what Bengal thinks today, Kolkata already thought yesterday! The bastion of Bengali bhadralok, the city of the bespectacled jhola slung intellectual is India’s cultural capital. Today’s Kolkata is a little tired, overwhelmed by the burden of too many people and not enough civic infrastructure. However it is the nerve centre of trade and industry in eastern India, and the most important city in the region. Look beyond the squalor and you will find that Kolkata retains a certain something that is sepia tinted, elegant and charming. You will either hate it or love it, but you can never be indifferent to Kolkata.