Lankgawi Wildlife Park

'Medium raw'. Arsalan biriyani, Park Circus Calcutta 54 2 (2 votes)
I landed at Calcutta this morning. I felt ten years younger. Nothing had changed. Except you had to control your bladder even longer with the crowds and just one loo in the arrival lounge. A dirty, stinky one. And the pre-paid cab[...]

"Just a li'l bit of the human touch". Jugals, Park Circus, Calcutta 55 2 (2 votes)
A bit deflated after Arsalan I ambled into the sweetshop next door. It's name was Jugal's. Sounded like a North Indian name to me. It was a Bengali sweetshop. I thought that it could be something like Gangurams, a traditional Bengali[...]

The last empty table at Park Street on Friday Night... Tung Fong, Park Street Kolkata 54 1 (1 vote)
This post is dedicated to my Mesho, a very generous host, who told me last night about how happy he was to see the buzz back at Park Street. A while back I had written about the difficulty of getting an empty table at Bandra on[...]

A rites of passage long delayed. Oly Pub, Park Street, Kolkata 55 1 (1 vote)
Quite a few eyebrows were raised when I recently tweeted about my plans to visit Oly Pub at Kolkata?s Park Street for the first time in my life. Folks couldn?t believe that I had[...]