City of Joy

My tryst with 2010 in Kolkata...

Kolkata....as described byDominique Lapierre in his book City of Joy.. sleepy metropolitan with its everytime fresh enthusiastic countrymen...

The slow change in Tram(times they say are changing... yes new wagons are visible on the streets).. but the air has that same sweetness which I first sensed when I visited this city 10years ago...

The hustle bustle of the city buses(they are too changing)...the gup shup at tea shop... the hand pull rickshaw still exists... Autorickshaw with CNG was a news to me...(the city has atlast some thoughts for the climate change)

The migrant youths bathing on the footpath with the same overflowing water 10years back...

The kids were already covered till toe with wollens in a temperature of 12 C...

Pretty bongs as usual voluptous... Aunties busy in eating and shopping whereas uncles busy in as usual checking thier vocal chords.. shouting at the loudest at everyone on that part of Earth...

Overall 5 long days and chill nights were wonderful and memorable...

The best part was the same unchanged culture of Bengal.... the mixu culture.... be it diwali... be it Xmas... be it Eid.... everyone would smile at everyone and continue eating at their gol gappes....

Protection

We the human love protection...the best example is the boundary walls of our respective homes....second form of protection is the protection against any evil....we put small black teeka on the cheek of our kids....
third form--protection of our lives... a small sneeze and we rush to the nearby medical centre...
fourth form of protection- safety against any malice... diseases...
we are so over enthusiastic about protection ... we try to protect our pet animals from cold...(see pic) but we forget that Mother Nature has provided every living being(infact every being) a cushion against any odd......and we think that with the help of artificial articles we can reverse the same....