Calcutta, till a few years ago was a typical city with its share of high-rises, good and bad roads, eateries, etc. It was not a state of the art or a hi-tech city like the other Metropolitan cities in the country. The buildings here were mostly four to six storeyed with a few high-rises here and there. People wanting to go out for movies went to the good old cinema halls and saw movies on the "Single Screen" theaters. That was a different kind of feeling altogether. May it be standing in the never ending queue for tickets or buying chips and china baadam as munchies to munch on during the movies.It was so much more less technological and the cheers which everyone broke into the moment the hero got the heroine has now become an offense in the multiplexes. Have we advanced or have we Calcuttans in the process of modernisation forgotten our roots and just blindly followed the other cities like Bombay and Hyderabad and in the process lost our innocence and culture?
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| Howrah Bridge |
We have wonders like Howrah Bridge and Victoria Memorial and still we compare our city of joy with others and criticize. .. is it justified?Why do we have this typical notion about our own city? Is it because it has lost its glory?But we in a way have given people reason to talk about us. Remember the Ultadanga flyover whose one part just broke and fell off? Also how the broken part was left there for innumerable days?
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| Ariel view of the broken Ultadanga flyover |
Still I somewhere feel Calcutta still has the charm. If you go North it feels like you have entered a different world altogether. Beautiful old houses, palaces and the infrastructure out there mirror the lavish culture and lifestyle Calcutta once had. Though all are not very well maintained but you can still see the past glory, the rich infrastructure and the lavish babu lifestyle.
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