friend at the mall for lunch. The mall was huge and very fancy. We had
a delicious meal. Then we went to a famous Kali temple in the south of
the city. We went from there to the National Library. After that we
drove to Princep's Ghat named after the famous cartographer who also
deciphered the Ashokan inscriptions. This is where the enormous bridge
in the picture is located. We went to an area where boats do river
tours on the Hooghly but were disappointed to find that they do not
run on weekends. Then we visited the area where I stayed last time I
was in Calcutta. Finally we went to Park Street where we had a nice
meal and then went to the south of the city to attend a small Buddhist
puja.
In Calcutta people go by nicknames rather than there real names. My
friend goes by Choti and her family's driver goes by the name Mithu.
He was a great driver and kept us out of a lot of near accidents. When
we were driving from the airport we saw another car rear-end a
rickshaw hard and then continue, plowing into a cycle rickshaw full of
bags of onions. Luckily no one was hurt.
I also booked my flight through an agency called Harsh Travels. Harsh
is Hindi for happiness/excitement.
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