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You can find whatever interests you from a rocking nightlife to living traditions, from state of the the art, techno heartbeats to the eternally spiritual Ganges. What, however, sets her apart and finds the pride of place is Calcutta's position as the high-priestess of culture.
Long before India became Independent, Kolkatta had ceased to become the Imperial capital. The partition of the country ensured it lost its economic supremacy as well. Calcutta has meanwhile grown into a strange combination of ancient and modern, skyscrapers and Victorian edifices, heaven of the rich and the poor. Yet, Kolkatta has remained the place where cultural renaissance began, a city that still breathes culture in its famed addas,tea shops, bus-stops and even the new fangled malls that still have people talking about the latest cultural phenomenon. A City that hibernates in the name of a deity during Durga and produces proud sons who dominate leading edge technologies, sciences, arts, economics and media.
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