Studio Para, Tollygunge
When shooting for Amar Chowdhury’s ‘Jamai Sashthi’ began in the 1930s, did people in the neighbourhood around Indrapuri Studio know that it was the debut of the words ‘light, camera, action’ for the first Bengali…
Big Ben Para, Lake Town
Over the past seven decades, a marshy lowland inhabited by refugees gradually transformed into one of the most sought after locales on the north-eastern fringe of Kolkata. Lake Town evolved through a constant mix of…
Boi Para, College Street
It begins with the creak of an old hand-pulled rickshaw, somewhere near Bowbazar. You hop in and ask the rickshaw-wallah to take you to College Square. He turns, slightly confused, and asks, “Madho Babu ka…
Tech Para, Sector V
What was born as a quiet industrial zone by filling up a marshy expanse on the eastern fringes of Kolkata, Salt Lake Sector V has transformed itself into the nerve centre of eastern India’s tech…
Posh Para, Ballygunge
Nestled in south Kolkata, Ballygunge stands as a testament to the city’s evolving character, where heritage seamlessly blends with contemporary urban life. The locality, whose name derives from the Bengali word ‘bali’ (sand), was once…
Amar Kolkata, Amar Para
AMAR, in Bengali, means “mine”; in Hindi, the word means “undying.” Either way, when you put amar before para, it sums up what the para means to every Kolkatan. Everything comes with a shelf life,…