Kolkata, the city of my birth is the only city I can truly call home. It has given me all my ‘firsts’ which has made my life what it is today – my first friend, my first love, my first job and also my first story. It has nurtured my childhood, witnessed my adolescence bloom into youth and seen me mature as a woman. Today when the heart is all aflutter with the uncertainties in the World, the mind strays to those moments that I hold close to my heart.…
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Day 24: X-Mas in Kolkata
My first experience of the Kolkata Christmas was in the 1980’s when I as a 5year old dazed eyed kid entered the hallowed portals of Kolkata’s New Market to do our Christmas shopping. The city then still lived a quiet existence unlike its present state when every occasion calls for a blast. In my childhood, Christmas was restricted to the Central Kolkata area (mostly New Market, and Park Street) and the rest of the city, other than a few household like ours slept peacefully through the Christmas carols being played…
