Kolkata Tilottama: Plunge Into the Depths of Our City

Close Your Eyes! Think of Kolkata! The frames that pass are of trams, yellow striped taxis, the city’s cultural diversity marinated in music, literature, art and theatre, the famous colossal Howrah Bridge, its massive “adda” culture on the famous and infamous “para rocks” and surely the beating of our very own “DHAAK” during the “DURGA PUJA” . It is since the renaissance of the 19 th Century that Kolkata has been the incubation centre for numerous mavericks, philosophers, and cultural dignitaries and thus been called as the “Cultural Capital of India”. It’s now even ranking to the number 7 th as per a Rediff Report that the city of Kolkata is now becoming the selected choice for real estate investments not only because of its affordability and the standards and costs of living but also due to its united diversity of culture and heritage. I would try and take you through this Journey! ·          The Lofty Heritage of Kolkata’s Literar...

Kolkata, popularly known as the City of Joy or the Cultural Capital of India, was formerly called Calcutta until 2001. We would today take a plunge into the historical background of our beloved city. To know of something in depth it is very important to know its background and history and so today we would be talking mainly about Kolkata’s beginning. The present day Kolkata is was circumscribed by three villages 1.Kalikata, 2.Sutanuti and 3.Gobindapur. While Kolkata was a fishing village, Sutanuti was a village infested by weavers of the riverside. This entire estate was in the Mughal Empire with the rights of taxation or the then system of Jagirdari being bestowed upon Sabarna RoyChowdury , a very prominent Zamindar of the age. With the arrival of the British East India Company in 1690 the control slowly began to settle into the hands of Job Charnock , an able administrator of the Company. The entire rights were officially shifted to the Company only in 1698. With the annexation...

The " City of Furious, Creative Energy", Kolkata, also, is commonly referred to as the city of "Adda" . Such an "adda" paves the way for this initiative. An initiative burning with furious vigour of creative energy. Finding it to my amazement, to introduce our own-selves , I would, however, take the immense pleasure and little pain and hilarious fun to do the same on behalf of my team, that endeavours to stick to continually plunging into both the glorious and horrid nooks and corners of what we can call, despite all odds, "AMAR SOHOR" (my city).  Now, comes the amusing part,of what we call, " INTRO" . This is the part where I have to write about the brains behind this child, as I would henceforth term them as "Cheler Dol". CHELER DOL SUBHADIP DEY MONA  Too big a name, isn't it. Better we all would refer to him as "MONA" . Creative by nature and lazily " lyadhkhor" by attitude , ...