Having ended last week’s walk at Hatibagan, from where you can take the Metro from Shyambazar station and travel back to Esplanade. As you emerge from the Metro station, you will be stepping back into the neighbourhood which once lay at the heart of British
Thanthania Kali Temple Last week, we had begun walking down College Street, and covered a substantial chunk of it. This week, the walk continues down what is one of Kolkata’s most venerated neighbourhoods, through the old book stalls and past College Street Market. Also worth mentioning
At about this time last year, there was fear. That there wouldn’t be enough visitors, that the beautiful properties would go vacant, that the crippling blow that Covid had dealt the travel and tourism sector would prove impossible to recover from. This year, the West
Minerva Theatre This week’s walk may well be called the ‘temple trail’, because though it is a continuation of our Chittaranjan Avenue saga, it takes in some of Kolkata’s oldest and most popular temples. And a few other interesting locations. If you remember, we had ended
The hill springs suddenly come alive through dense forests, a deciduous canopy touch the roof of the coach you travel in, a group of hornbills fly past. And you enjoy all this while sitting inside a train coach with transparent glass walls around, more like
This is going to be a slightly longer walk, so it is perhaps best split into two. We will begin at Esplanade Row East, now known as Sidhu Kanhu Dahar, and proceed along Chittaranjan Avenue, through the heart of what used to be the aristocratic
Our weekly walk has brought us to what is one of Kolkata’s most fascinating neighbourhoods, though we perhaps do not think of it as such. Sealdah, intrinsic to the growth of the city. Once upon a time, it bordered the Salt Lakes, as well as
Jorasanko Thakurbari Having entered the ‘native’ quarters on last week’s walk, we will continue our round of some of Kolkata’s grandest residences, commissioned by a group of elite citizens who largely rose to prominence under British patronage, mostly through trade with first the East India Company
Chitpur Road Last week, we had said we would be starting this, the eighth edition of our walk around our city, from Chitpur Road. In between, we have done a separate article on Chitpur Road itself, reputed to be Kolkata’s oldest thoroughfare. The British spelled it
Siddeshwari Kali Mandir Four days from today, on August 24, we will have completed 331 years since Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti Ghat, kicking off the chain of events that led to the ‘birth’ of Calcutta. Much has been written and said about where the name