{"id":446,"date":"2019-01-03T10:44:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T10:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psgroup.in\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2024-09-30T13:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:51:30","slug":"kolkata-city-with-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psgroup.in\/blog\/kolkata-city-with-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kolkata is a city with a soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cYou want your city clean and green, stick to Delhi. You want your city rich and impersonal, go to Bombay. You want them hi-tech and full of draught beer, Bangalore\u2019s your place. But if you want a city with a soul, come to Calcutta.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nVir Sanghvi<\/em> talking about Kolkata city<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Five things make Kolkata different from other metropolitan cities, that prove Kolkata city is indeed a city with a soul<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kolkata city and its Culture<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A love for arts and culture lies at the heart of Kolkata city. Hardly is there a Bengali in the city who cannot recite Tagore! Be it dance or music, hardly a child even from a middle-income background not taught an art form! It is in the genes, baby, in the genes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Public transport<\/strong> at kolkata city<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Consider the various forms of public transport on offer: trams, buses, metro rail, auto-rickshaws, suburban rail, and the good old kaali peeli taxi (since replaced by Uber and Ola). The result: you can get across the city for a cheaper cost than probably any other place in India.  Don\u2019t believe it? Try Delhi? And if you want an international benchmark, try London or even Bangkok!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Heritage city<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Calcutta is one of the few cities in India that the British had built from scratch. As a result- antique neighborhoods, monuments and churches with a distinctive colonial touch as if in a sweet time-freeze: yellow Ambassador taxis, trams weaving through the city, hand-pulled rickshaws and people starting sentences with \u2018As because\u2026\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Neighbourliness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kolkata is Kolkata due to its unmistakable warmth (not the mercury kind!), where 12 people converges each time you ask for road directions, where the youth will gladly offer bus seats to grey haired aunty, where the never ending adda <\/em>is never without cha shinghara misti!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sweet tooth<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The sweetness of the people seeps to their tongue. From traditional rosogolla to quirky baked mithai, nolen gurer puli pithe she sure knows work her charms through<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durga Pujo<\/strong> at kolkata city<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

India\u2019s biggest festival, World\u2019s grandest carnival. If you haven\u2019t been through the maelstrom, you haven\u2019t been born yet. It\u2019s an epic convergence of aesthetics, piety, logistics, crowds, travel and project management when the city beckons you never to leave again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did you know this about Kolkata city?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n