Kolkata (Calcutta) Guide

Whenever I visit College Street I make it a point to visit Paramount - the one-stop shop for sherbets in Kolkata (Calcutta). Paramount is a 94 years old sherbet joint that boasts of a rich heritage that very few places in the city can match up to. It is declared as a Heritage building/shop by Kolkata (Calcutta) Municipal Corporation.

  If you have come near College Street in north/central Kolkata (Calcutta) and have not tasted the deep-fried snacks (Tele Bhaja) from "Kalika" then you are really missing something that can not be expressed in words. Kalika is a shop specializing in cutlets in central Kolkata. Frankly speaking I have had the best Beguni (fried slices of Brinjal dipped in gram flour batter) of Kolkata (Calcutta) in "Kalika Mukhorochok Telebhaja".

UPDATE : Now passengers have to pay whatever is displayed on the meter... No extra Addition or Multiplication ... :) From 1st November 2012 Government of West Bengal has increased taxi and bus fares in Kolkata (Calcutta), as a result people (Passengers in general) are quite confused as the taxi drivers are charging whatever they wish coz the meters are the same only the way to calculate the fare has changed. So just to clear this "air of confusion" I am putting up this post.

UPDATE : Now passengers have to pay whatever is displayed on the meter... No extra Addition or Multiplication ... :) For Booking pre-paid Taxi online visit  http://etaxi.howrahcitypolice.in/Booking Link to the App is  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.howrahpolice.etaxi Howrah Junction is one of the busiest Railway stations of Kolkata (Calcutta), or rather Eastern India. To reduce the Rush of the passengers, a "New Terminus" has been created in Howrah Junction. All the Trains of Eastern Railway arrive in and depart from the Old Terminus. And all the Trains of South-Eastern Railway arrive in and depart from the New Terminus. Both these Terminuses have their own respective "Pre-Paid Taxi Booths", though the Rate Chart is same for both these booths. These Pre-Paid Taxi Booths are run by Hoogly Nadi Jalpath Paribahan samity Ltd. Earlier These rates were written only in Bengali, then they put up the rate chart in English, though the size of that...

For the past two three days I am visiting many durga puja pandals. I have seen many people carrying the Kolkata Durga puja map distributed by Kolkata police. The main disadvantage of the Kolkata Police puja map is that these maps are mainly for traffic advisory and not detailed as compared to the Google Maps. Their main aim is to show the traffic movements and blocked roads. Also, not all the popular pujas are mentioned in that map. I saw people struggling with the directions... the on-duty police and the volunteers who are managing the traffic on roads are not local people so they don't know which pandal is where... so this adds to the confusion. Nowadays many people carry high-end smart phones & tabs with them... a thought struck my mind that if there is a map that is created using Google maps and is accessible from these devices then that will be very useful. I have created such a map and I hope it will be helpful to people as it will show the exact location of the p...