My junior PGT and a fellow blogger, Dr. Neha Sharma posted her 1sr blog post on blogger about her experience in Kolkata...
A refreshing post which can be read on http://docneha1006.blogspot.ca/
Here is what she has to say about her new place and the people around:
"Unlike as the title might indicate on first look it has nothing to do with the first month of pregnancy's experience. I start my blog as my first month ends in a new city where I arrived almost as surprisingly as a meteor falls from sky. Its an entirely different story how i ended in Kolkata for the next leg of my education when i had prepared myself for Mumbai, but won't delve into the boring details...but now i am in the land of Didi and henceforth my impressions. Once the announcement was made suggestions started pouring in that it is a dirty city, too much crowd etc. On the contrary i would say a city where tea is still served in earthen 'kulhad' can't be called dirty, it tastes heavenly...and tell me which metro city is not crowded?! So that apart Kolkata is a city which took me back in time, the Colonial times of our history books just morph into real life architecture still undisturbed and carried as a baton of legacy . The pace of people is slow but traffic is recklessly fast and i enjoyed my first tram ride, again an old legacy here.
First week and i get reminded by good Samaritans that the staple is fish and me being a vegetarian food will be a problem and true i still find the smell bit nauseating..though I will reassure there's a lot for people like me. If you have an annoying sweet tooth like me this city is heaven with all the rasogullas dripping syrup and melt in mouth irresistible taste, nothing like the poor mimics found elsewhere in the country.I still need to figure out what's the deal with too much potato usage in all food types...nevertheless still discovering local cuisine.
Everybody is inclined to converse in Bangla, nothing to do with any regionalism, in fact non bengali residing for long time prefer it too...so i am taking my first small steps with the much acclaimed sweet language. It is a city of warm and welcoming people and i already don't feel much of that' far away from home' feeling. So many things still to be discovered, a learning period to complete and markets to explore i think fate took an interesting twist when i decided to come here. There might be some downsides too like a tropical weather, too humid at times even oppressive. Overall i am enjoying myself and recommend that visit this place at least once to be reminded of everything that is as traditional as our culture and as modern as the west mingling subtly as one city swarming with humanity....".
A refreshing post which can be read on http://docneha1006.blogspot.ca/
Here is what she has to say about her new place and the people around:
"Unlike as the title might indicate on first look it has nothing to do with the first month of pregnancy's experience. I start my blog as my first month ends in a new city where I arrived almost as surprisingly as a meteor falls from sky. Its an entirely different story how i ended in Kolkata for the next leg of my education when i had prepared myself for Mumbai, but won't delve into the boring details...but now i am in the land of Didi and henceforth my impressions. Once the announcement was made suggestions started pouring in that it is a dirty city, too much crowd etc. On the contrary i would say a city where tea is still served in earthen 'kulhad' can't be called dirty, it tastes heavenly...and tell me which metro city is not crowded?! So that apart Kolkata is a city which took me back in time, the Colonial times of our history books just morph into real life architecture still undisturbed and carried as a baton of legacy . The pace of people is slow but traffic is recklessly fast and i enjoyed my first tram ride, again an old legacy here.
First week and i get reminded by good Samaritans that the staple is fish and me being a vegetarian food will be a problem and true i still find the smell bit nauseating..though I will reassure there's a lot for people like me. If you have an annoying sweet tooth like me this city is heaven with all the rasogullas dripping syrup and melt in mouth irresistible taste, nothing like the poor mimics found elsewhere in the country.I still need to figure out what's the deal with too much potato usage in all food types...nevertheless still discovering local cuisine.
Everybody is inclined to converse in Bangla, nothing to do with any regionalism, in fact non bengali residing for long time prefer it too...so i am taking my first small steps with the much acclaimed sweet language. It is a city of warm and welcoming people and i already don't feel much of that' far away from home' feeling. So many things still to be discovered, a learning period to complete and markets to explore i think fate took an interesting twist when i decided to come here. There might be some downsides too like a tropical weather, too humid at times even oppressive. Overall i am enjoying myself and recommend that visit this place at least once to be reminded of everything that is as traditional as our culture and as modern as the west mingling subtly as one city swarming with humanity....".
No comments:
Post a Comment