Central Calcutta's Seedy District: Sudder Street and Free School Street. Up there is Sudder Street, which has surprisingly lofty origins, snaking in as it does from behind the National Museum on Chowringhee Avenue, but then it degenerates, through a multitude of twists and turns, into this raggedly place teeming with cheap hotels, motels, brothels and foreign exchange shops. Perfect for hippie/ poor firangs.Free School Street down there is now called Mirza Ghalib Street. This has got to be one of the city's most diverse roads ever - from posh restaurants to alleged Chinese mafia dens, churches to mosques, government buildings to old gramophone record stores, second hand book sellers to brothels. Welcome to the Hotch Potch! :)
The most memorable landmark here? That's easy - the Fire Brigade HQ, all in a peculiar shade of lime yellow, with its dozen or so giant red fire trucks assembled below. A six-year old's fantasy come true. (Well, apart from the brothels and the mafia dens, I mean!)
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Calcutta is a city bubbling with heritage and its the birthplace of modern Indian literary and artistic thought. Luved ur calcutta series :)
lol. viewer, actually, its not over yet - i have soooooo many more snaps to load here! lol.
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