Early this morning we had a walking tour of Dalhousie Square and the buildings from the British Colonial period from
Calcutta Walks. We were split into two groups, the group I was with had Ifte as our guide, seen in the maroon shirt.
This is the Writers Building, the one famous building that you cannot photograph... from up close. They might arrest you. Luckily although Nate was taking a photo of a tree and not the building (though it looked like he was taking a photo of the building), nothing severe happened. Oh dear.
This was a Life Insurance building that had many local ornamental features after being copied from European plans. Including a representation of both life and death on the facade..
It is said that there are two things good for your stomach in Kolkata: one is yogurt, and the other is coconut milk.
After the walk, which also included seeing St John's Church, the Town Hall, the Governor's House (from outside the gate), we trekked over to the flower market near the Howrah Bridge. The railroad tracks were the only way to get there from where we were...
This a view of some of the architectural and street typologies that we've been mapping for the atlas. Almost at the flower market...
Here we are at a river ghat, and what everyone here is taking pictures of are the local kids posing for the camera.
The ghat with curious trees growing from the retaining wall. These trees growing on the sides of buildings are fairly common.
The flower market. Those marigolds on the left. It was this crowded throughout.
This was the harrowing craziness of the walk towards the idol makers in North Kolkata.
The idol makers statues for the river festivals.
An alley in the idol maker neighborhood. After seeing this neighborhood, the time being about two pm, we all went back to the hotel for a free afternoon. I went with some other people to check out Kalighat, which we will not see as a larger group until probably? tomorrow afternoon. I took a taxi with Jonathon, Danielle and Bo Young which took some 20 minutes to get back to the hotel.
Early this morning we had a walking tour of Dalhousie Square and the buildings from the British Colonial period from Calcutta Walks. We were split into two groups, the group I was with had Ifte as our guide, seen in the maroon shirt.
This is the Writers Building, the one famous building that you cannot photograph... from up close. They might arrest you. Luckily although Nate was taking a photo of a tree and not the building (though it looked like he was taking a photo of the building), nothing severe happened. Oh dear.
This was a Life Insurance building that had many local ornamental features after being copied from European plans. Including a representation of both life and death on the facade..
It is said that there are two things good for your stomach in Kolkata: one is yogurt, and the other is coconut milk.
After the walk, which also included seeing St John's Church, the Town Hall, the Governor's House (from outside the gate), we trekked over to the flower market near the Howrah Bridge. The railroad tracks were the only way to get there from where we were...
This a view of some of the architectural and street typologies that we've been mapping for the atlas. Almost at the flower market...
Here we are at a river ghat, and what everyone here is taking pictures of are the local kids posing for the camera.
The ghat with curious trees growing from the retaining wall. These trees growing on the sides of buildings are fairly common.
The flower market. Those marigolds on the left. It was this crowded throughout.
This was the harrowing craziness of the walk towards the idol makers in North Kolkata.
The idol makers statues for the river festivals.
An alley in the idol maker neighborhood. After seeing this neighborhood, the time being about two pm, we all went back to the hotel for a free afternoon. I went with some other people to check out Kalighat, which we will not see as a larger group until probably? tomorrow afternoon. I took a taxi with Jonathon, Danielle and Bo Young which took some 20 minutes to get back to the hotel.
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