5 THINGS TO DO IN KOLKATA THAT GOOGLE WON'T TELL YOU
Ex capital, heritage, football, culture, Bengalis. Are these words enough to define Kolkata? Well it would have been so, had it been merely a metropolitan city competing with the rest of the world in all spheres. Kolkata is far beyond that. It is a feeling that you never fail to carry with you wherever you’re going. It is not a place to be known through internet or books. Be here, walk aimlessly, breathe the city, and you’ll explore countless unknown facts; discover n number of unheard stories. But just to make it a bit easier, the article gives you only five of those unique things to do in Kolkata that Google doesn’t know.
Hide and seek in the lanes of North
The lanes of North Kolkata are as old as the concept of Boroline healing every Bengalee wound. The glorified idea of Globalization has not yet touched this part of the city that significantly. They are still equipped with old men’s gossips; dogs fighting over a piece of food and you wouldn’t be annoyed if the Gali-cricket hits your hand with the deuce. The lanes are still the best places to hide, to get lost and roam around to finally come back to where you started.
Update yourself in the street tea stalls
No matter how classy tea bags does your kitchen contain, they will never give you the amazing live discussions of worldwide news that you will get in the tea stalls of streets in the morning. Just go and grab a cup of tea in any tea stall in the morning and you will never need a newspaper. You see you cannot estimate how and when the topics will be changed and in what link. For example it can start with the latest film of Kaushik Ganguly and after a minute you might hear news about the President of North Korea formulating 12 haircuts for men. The discussions will travel worldwide when you take those smoky sips from the earthen pot and when you’re full for the day, you don’t care about any leading newspaper or news channel anymore.
Feed yourself with all cuisines equally in the same city
Be it Punjabi aalu-da-Paratha, Mughal Biriyani or South Indian Dosa, this city gives you all food types with the genuine taste. Not only Indian stuff, Kolkata’s lanes and streets are filled with cafes and restaurants with menu varying from cheesy Italian (La Cusina) to authentic Mexican (Chillis), from aromatic Thai (Baan Thai Restaurant) to dramatic sea-food (Santa’s Fantasea). Though Kolkata is famous for her luscious, spongy Roshogolla and Mishti doi, the city never disappoints any stomach of any citizenship.
Enjoy live football without a stadium
Though the city has got six big football stadiums, Kolkata’s football doesn’t limit itself to them. Dawns and dusks have witnessed boys of all social strata dripping with sweat while playing the ball. Maidan, Grounds of Rabindra Sarobar lake area, still breathe happiness because of the mini leagues, those cheers of win and those lessons of failure. You can just sit back keeping a safe distance and enjoy nail-biting live tournaments of unknown players, also maybe some would-be shining stars of the city!
Attend an Indian classical concert once a week without a ticket
Much is not written about the heavenly place in Tollygunge where classical maestros of Kolkata reside, where the Sun gets up with the tunes of Bhairavi, where the grasses are lucky to touch the feet of the eminent legends. It is the ITC Sangeet Research Academy. The academy organises a classical music concert every Wednesday and it is open to all. You can just walk in and get a therapy , healing every wounds of your mind through the performances of the scholars and Gurus of the place. It gives you an idea of the huge mine of Indian classical genre.
A resident or a foreigner- one never stops knowing the city to its fullest. The trick is, this incompleteness is a gift she offers you and the key for the urge to keep her knowing, keep her loving the same wherever you go. No search engine can find you Kolkata!
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