Calcutta in-Difference

Welcome to city of the reality, Welcome to the city of difference and its truly distinct style of teaching life to a person like me who is still in the egg shell of ignorance and unreal fun. Things are no uniquely dfrnt. U can automatically know that, u are here to learn things in the harder way. I was one of the 6 geese who were selected to go , reasons being spectacularly unknown. the only thing that comes to my mind when i hear Bangla is the dialogue from Pawan Kalyan in the movie KUSHI,

"Vishv mein ek rabindranath tagore, satyajit ray, jagadish chandra bose and char majumdar, Royal Bengal Tiger. Siddu Sidhartha Roy, We are all from hamaara Bangla.

Apart from having a summary of the woes i had in and due to kolkata, the other part is, i started to know and live amongst "people". I had seen poverty in the eye of a lady in the slum , i saw a conductor giving back two twenty five paise coins back to the traveller. i have seen a person pulling me on his shoulders for five rupees(rickshaw-victoria). i have seen people fighting for ten rupees. i have a live fish being cut.
I have seen intelligence used for cheating people. I have seen what bargaining is. i saw a place bigger than koti for shopping. i have seen how unsafe life is after 9 p.m. I have seen fear in the eye of a girl when she sees a drunkard falling. I have seen an illegal immigrant struggling for living and running from police. i have seen people travelling 40 kms to come to office. I have seen people and vehicles are totally unruly on roads. i have seen people think and live in the future here. I have seen people here are close and dont make relationships closed. I have seen the worst food that kolkata can offer and the best food we can make out of it. I havent seen ego in kolkata. I have seen a 50 year old man singing bengali songs with such perfection that u are mesmerized with his tune(i dint understand anything though). I have seen submissiveness, lessons in store for people like me who think life is going in a honda city and jumping and hopping to theatres and enjoying food that mom makes.

Kolkata made me to realize every word that my dad said, every lunch and dinner my mom made, every thing that my sister used to ask me, every little group that my frnds included me into, every frnd whom i used to mean a lot, every rupee i earned, every rupee i spent. It cracked me mentally, physically and emotionally. JP Morgan is jus a reason to teach me the lesson that kolkata offers to everyone. I have seen great people breaking down emotionally due to the resistance the city offers. For good or bad, people leave the city. I am here to learn the hidden side of Calcutta. the inner pages of the book that truly means and wil change my life for all the things ahead.

More things to come..


Shom Shunder
AD 189, Sector -1
Salt Lake.