I had been raised in this city. There were some confined
zones till where I would stretch my wandering zeal. As a child I still reminisce a few of the hot spots where I used to often visit... a warm winter afternoon,
a criss-crossed mat,floral cup cakes, spicy fish fry and “Dum aloo” or the Bengali version “Aloor Dom” and then we headed on to the picnic spot at Botanical garden on a
weekend or an attempt to find a white leopard inside the rusty cage of Alipore Zoo,
sometimes a pony ride near Victoria, the newspaper wrapped “jhaal muri” or “bhel puri”
near park street crossing, and then may
be if Ma permitted was allowed a chariot ride,
“Ma "knew bargaining tacts, I often used to say “How green was this place,
why can't Kolkata be like this everywhere”, that specific road could boast of a “clean tag”
So many years have passed thereafter, here I was with my daughter playing
the same role...I tried to explore a few of those places which I had crossed zillion times holding Ma’s hand... but always hummed “Next time" many times during winter afternoons, I had poked myself to visit those places but
again there were the mundane, the routine ..but now with my 10 year old, I suddenly recognised an inexplicable
travelling spirit. Or might be a “Mothers’ super active zeal had shed off its latent lethargic trend, every visit since then has been a new discovery, an exploration, an experience, a fun stroll..an old city, bits and pieces of new charm amidst the banal, that's how this city is unfolding its many hidden gems, may be or might be my motherly zest, hunting for it ;)
Victoria Memorial
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| Victorios-Victoria Memorial |
Victorial Memorial-Located at Qeensway, kolkata-It is the largest marble building bulit in 1906 and 1921. A great tourist spot, established in the memory of queen Victoria
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| The Entrance-Victoria Memorial |
Prinsep Ghat
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"Nouka" ride @Princep Ghat-
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