Kolkata - The City with a Soul
Right from the time I landed to the huge Airport of the city, lucky to witness the timely splash of the season inspiring several hearts to fall in love ! Yes the rains of Kolkata brought a raw fragrance of the wet earth and the culture of India that most of us miss today. The city has balanced its greenness and the concrete structures. The ride from the airport to the hotel was fun and thrilling in the yellow Ambassador Taxis. Very much inspired with the language and the people, people must try to learn Bengali because it contains the vocabulary base from Magadhi Prakrit and Pali, also tatsamas and re-borrowings from Sanskrit and other major borrowings from Persian, Arabic, Austroasiatic languages and other languages in contact with. Kolkata (Calcutta) is the capital of West Bengal. located on the east bank of the Hooghly River and served as the capital of India during the British Rule until 1911. It was once the center of industry and education and commercial center of...