Culcutta or Kolkatta

        Year 2014 was the year .I was planning to  visit several hill stations in India, when I heard that my brother is organizing a tour to these places , I contacted him and asked him to book a place for me. After the seat was confirmed I asked my brother about the duration and places he  will be taking us during our Visit.

   

        I was shocked with his answer because when my brother told me he was planning to visit East India, I thought he will visit the hill stations, so I requested him  for a place. But My prediction was wrong about the place, actually My brothers tour group visit West Benggol, and the most popular leaders and freedom fighters and the nobel Prize winners, Mother Theresa’ orphanage, Rabindranath Tagores home and Victoria palace other than The High Tech Park and Rama mKrishna Paramamhamsar  place and then The ancient Kali temples, especially culcutta kali Temple , the place  swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsar spent his time , meditating  at the temple.

   

        Culcutta is a place full of human flood and garbage waste , which was found in heaps as hills. We were informed by the tourist guide that almost daily 10 thousand tons of garbage waste being gathered and composed into organic  feterlizer, which fertiles hectors of Delta land . This waste garbage is known as the heaviest garbaged  known in Asia.These heaps of garbage compost look like black hills from far, here  farming has been carried out intensively. Most of the Culcutta people are Bengolis and they  are vegetarians and they consume vegetables and lentils daily.

     

             Lentil is consumed at every meal in culcutta, as soup, snack, halva, as biscuit as main meal and as curry. Daily breakfast is lentil cake, lunch , lentil gravy with rice and evening tea, sweets and delicacies from lentil and dinner lentil gravy with chapatti. So dhall is part of their daily life in west Benggol.

   People are  every where, we visited the Jain templae in culcutta, The jain people when they walk , they tie heaps of cotton under their feet to avoid any insects or ants killed by them, one will be sweeping the street with a broom them followed by other walking calmly after the sweeper.

       

        Only Godess Kali Temple was seen at every part of culcutta and they refer  ‘Godess Kali’ as Thurga ma. An unexpected opportunity which I got during this visit was to get my self wet in the Holy Ganges River, which was just at the  compound of  Ramakrishna Ashram. At trhis ashram i noticrd huge fully bloomed giant roses in various colour were planted. Along with jasmine. Huge crowd was seen at Kali temple, but at the asram only moderate  crowd was seen there.

     

         During our five days visit to Culcutta, we were served, lentil and potatoes , with chicken, rice and chapatti until we were bored, when we requested for fish, we were told that the sea fish is not hygienic there and people hardly eat fish because, at teh Ganges River Banks, burnt corpse thrown into the river and these corpse fflesh eaten by the fish in the Ganges river. Thats the reason why the Bengolis  there don’t eat fish from Ganges river. Upon  few of teh senior peoples request, threy cooked fish for us but the taste was mixed with chemical taste, which prevent us from eating or tasting it.

   

                  Victoria palace or Victoria memorial is a muzium , which exibit the early Indian fighters, nationalist and the locals who were in volved in various self employed jobs. Everything has been exhibited in pictrures.Culcutta is one of the land mark in India , where the English entered for the first Time in India. The parks in culcutta very huge and spacious each around or more than hundred acres, due to the population of people who gathers to watch the games and come the with their families for relaxation.

    

                      The Culcutta Taxis are in Yellow colour just like the New York Taxis. Land is so expensive in culcutta, we realized it when we went to the hotel, which is a 5 story building but too small. The Bengolis hospitality is fantastic. Upon our arrival at the hotel we were all served a chilled cocktailed drinks which was mixture of sprite , lemonade and ginger, it was really a chilled and nice drinks.  The Culcutta air port was so huge and i was  shocked to see so many Chinese at the air port, it took some time for me to realize that they are all Indians from the hill stations who look like Chinese. Even The officers at the airport had the Chinese looks, but these people are all from the north east mountains , and they look more like Chinese. Something I really don’t like about this place is, its heat, and humidity which is unbearable.