Hope back in Calcutta

There was a time, somewhere in my distant childhood, when the ‘season’ beginning with Christmas and culminating in the New Year was centred, not on Goa, but on Calcutta. It was ‘burra din’, the time when Park Street (now renamed Mother Teresa Sarani) was lit up to resemble Oxford Street in the only other city the elite of Calcutta identified with.

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