Kolkata

Welcome back after the Easter break.

The story under discussion is by Amit Chaudhuri: biographical information can be found at the British Council website here.

The setting of the story is Kolkata, to be specific, the Ballygunge neighbourhood of that city. Lots of nice people make their lovely photos available for everyone to look at: there are some good ones here.

In the story, Bishu meets his brother at Esplanade.

Kolkata Esplanade

They walk past K.C. Das, the sweet manufacturer,

towards the Governor’s Building

and the All India Studios,

finally going to Dacres Lane for a bite to eat:

Dontcha just love being able to see all the places that you’re reading about?

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