Through the Streets of Kolkata 📸

Kolkata streets — specially the busier ones — are often veritable nightmares. To walk through them, especially at nighttime, is an adventure. One cannot be sure what will happen and from which quarter. Hair-breadth escapes from death or disaster, sudden difficulty from some unexpected encounter, it may be with a hole or uncovered manhole, or it may be with a banana skin, or with a smart pickpocket, — anything may happen to make one the hero of a drama. He may draw around him sympathetic men lending their help. But a true inhabitant of the city finds all this exciting. Kolkata streets are ill kept and ill lighted, often death traps Sometimes one wonders whether there is any authority to look after things. The dustbins are full to overflowing and emit foul smell. The pavements are full of holes and puddles and where these are not; there are crowds of hawkers, and beggars and dogs. The hawkers until recently, encroached on and almost entirely occupied the pave­ments with their wares. The pedestrian is elbowed out into the streets where he runs the risk of being knocked down or run over by a car. And then the noise; one has to hear it to believe it. From morning till midnight, it goes on shrill and nerve-racking. #Kolkata #StreetPhotography #Pindle #ShareWithPindle #Shopping #Travel