Spice of Kolkata | Ecency
- At 15 or 65, you are still a “Dada”
- New market is not new anymore!
- If you don’t find a book in College Street, probably it doesn’t exist!
- If you are wondering where the next bus-stop is.. just signal the bus to stop with your hands!
- On public transport, no matter how crowded it is - “Ektu chepe!”
- Only city where the bus conductor gets to hear “dicchi, dicchi!”
- Taxi meters run faster than the vehicle itself!
- Want to take a walk? If you aren’t married go to Victoria, if you are married go to South City Mall!
- It’s not Tollygunge.. It’s Taligonj
- Everyone has a friend who is from South Point. (I have only1!)
- Origin of the oldest metro in India. So, “Metro niye kotha hobe na”
- What we pray when KKR plays, “Aaj, shalaa, brishti hok!”
- Bandh = “Yayyy, family time!”
- Want to date a Kolkata girl? Just say, “Fuchka khabe?”
- No matter how spicy the fuchka masala is “Arektu jhaal dao toh”
- The first Bangla a non-bong learns “Ami tomake bhalobashi”. (After Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas that has changed to “Eeshhh.. Sotti?”)
- “Restaurant” = “Hotel”; “Shopping”=“Marketing”
- Joggers wear monkey caps in the first week of November “Oh bhishon thanda porey geche dada!”
- In the course of a heated discussion, a Bengali gunda threatens “Dada, eta bhalo hocche na bole dicchi!”
- Calcutta to California.. there is a Calcuttian everywhere!..............:) :D
