Kolkata Tilottama: Plunge Into the Depths of Our City

Addiction is an evil, which is a menace to the society or an individual, more or less everyone seems to have an addiction, and it can be from drinking coffee, gambling, shopping to drinking alcohol, smoking and consumption of drugs. Some of the addictions are only threat to the very individual or the very family, but some of them are not only threat to the individual or the family but also to the society. Drug and alcohol addiction of late have emerged as a great peril to Kolkata as the young generation is falling prey to this demon easily. Young generation takes it as a sensation, a symbol of modernism at first but soon they become enslaved by it. Mainly the age group between 18 and 24 is becoming dependent on drugs, nicotine, and alcohol. These phenomena generally occur out of curiosity, loneliness, depressing, stress, inferiority complex, excessive pressure of school or college, social life, a mental gap with parents, etc. Some parents give a good amount of pocket money to the

I shall spend my day with no work to do, playing the flute the whole day in the nature’s lap, I shall spend my day with no work to do—“ আজ বিনা কাজে বাজিয়ে বাঁশি কাটবে সকল বেলা  “ – What do we do now if we ever feel this way ! In this world of concrete when it is even difficult to have a glance of the clear blue sky, the city of Kolkata gives us an open lush green land to glance at the sky and to spend a day of leisure at what we call popularly as Rabindra Sadan Area. Though addressed to by that name it actually comprises of six such places that also makes it the Cultural Epicenter of Kolkata. It is here that we can try-say, a bit on the Dylan tone, CULTURE MY FRIEND IS BLOWING IN THE WIND. A place, which is never abandoned, is thronged by all kind of people ranging from the age group of six to sixty. It is located at the AJC Bose Road and Cathedral Road Junction and is the south-east point of the Kolkata Maidan, popularly referred to as GORER MATH. The place is also circled