Wandering in the Vibrant City... Kolkata... Day 1
Day 1
This time we were heading to Kolkata for a wedding reception. So we thought of squeezing in some sightseeing. Here goes my feel of this trip...
Usually my flight route to any place I
visit is via Mumbai... But this time it was a Bengaluru transit… Though I visit Bengaluru
often it is either during daytime or by road....
The flight schedule of arrival
at dusk and take off later on, held a surprise for us.
Expecting to see
the display of lights... I was pleasantly surprised to see it just in
pockets... How green is Namma Bengaluru!
Bengaluru, the garden city, still
has canopies of trees though not to the extent of earlier times...It made me feel
exactly like the lines from a Bollywood song Ho gaya ke dil garden garden ho gaya… Though we see it on road...never visualized the extent of the green cover as visible in a birds eye view…
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When
we landed in Kolkata we saw a contrasting picture... It was brightly lit like
the rows and rows of glowing diyas (lamps) during Deepavali... The entire city
is brightly decked up... Sodium vapour lamps, Halogen lamps and LED lights in
addition to the various glowing lights emanating from the traffic.
"Amidst your numberless stars
let me place my own little lamp.
In the dance of your festival
lights
my heart will throb and my life
will be one with your smile…"
I was surprised to see the sort of brightness which one associates with night time say at Shinjuku in Tokyo… That, there is due to the huge number of neon hoardings lit along the street.
While driving into the city, we could see these bright lights illuminating entire length of the street on either sides. We came to know that it
was the brainchild of Didi (Mamta Banerjee), an off shoot of the Diwali
celebratory lights. What made this lighting spectacular was, in addition to the
street lights each electric pole is wound with LED strips half in blue and the
other half in white...
.....colors of Mother Teresa's robes....
It looked as though the city was all decked up, living up
to the state tourism tagline... Beautiful Bengal… After seeing the scale of lighting at night, as it was clearly a recent addition, I had thought... not bad, Didi had solar powered them... Come daylight, I realized… My thoughts were just
my thoughts only, not the reality...
It made me wonder… Be it solar powered or otherwise… will these lights not raise the temperature in the city substantially?
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Dear Readers,
I was surprised to see the sort of brightness which one associates with night time say at Shinjuku in Tokyo… That, there is due to the huge number of neon hoardings lit along the street.
While driving into the city, we could see these bright lights illuminating entire length of the street on either sides. We came to know that it
was the brainchild of Didi (Mamta Banerjee), an off shoot of the Diwali
celebratory lights. What made this lighting spectacular was, in addition to the
street lights each electric pole is wound with LED strips half in blue and the
other half in white... .....colors of Mother Teresa's robes....
It looked as though the city was all decked up, living up
to the state tourism tagline... Beautiful Bengal… After seeing the scale of lighting at night, as it was clearly a recent addition, I had thought... not bad, Didi had solar powered them... Come daylight, I realized… My thoughts were just
my thoughts only, not the reality... It made me wonder… Be it solar powered or otherwise… will these lights not raise the temperature in the city substantially?
~~~ oOo ~~~
Dear Readers,
Welcome to the next edition of my travelogue ... Thank you so much for your wonderful support. Quite a few of you have expressed your views personally. I would cherish if you all would be kind enough to put it here in the comment section... Thank you once again and hope you enjoy going through this edition too...
Credit to the cover picture goes to the original uploader...
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