If you ever want to take a tour to observe the ways of survival of the city, Kolkata, your spot of selection can be the central hub of the city. the ‘College Street, BoiPara”, striking a balance between the various cultures and lifestyle. With thousands of books from history to mathematics, novels to food habits, classics to autobiographical journals, examination question bank to Disney world of Children, unlocking the keys of existence into one single emotion, “oh didi/dada, ki boi lagbe?”. You may not even want to buy any, but the hunt for gratitude would awaken your memory every time you walk into the streets of ‘Boi Para‘.

Kolkata is indeed Kolkata because of its people. And the People’s struggle for the existence of Kolkata collectively or individually starts here. You would get to see book lovers. Coming to college street is like their habits. A habit to not only search for books but in search of something more. You would see students roaming around in groups, hawkers, rickshaw pullers, laborers, shopkeepers, travelers all in search of something. Searching for something new and realistic. Something that would establish their existence in terms of struggle and it’s corollary survival. It establishes Kolkata as the catalyst for searching its existence confirming its identity, collectively, as a whole.

Perhaps, you won’t be able to restrict your tour to certain popular ideas of its historical places to visit, available foods, or significant attraction, because all of it is in tune with the own and different understanding of its existence clubbed together with a homely approach for strangers to exist and come into interaction with each other.

Once you pass by the gates of the heritage buildings of the Calcutta Medical College, Calcutta University, Hindu School, and Hindu College ( now known as Presidency University), the past, present, and future of the city gets reflected as a fight to be carried forward. A fight to win over. The cacophony of the conversations over a coffee cup coming to your ears at the historical Coffee House would give you different contemporary facts and ideas of the fight of the city in relation to the surrounding world, and might as well strike a conflict in your mind.

The dynamic similarity of every tour you take from here would find the hope for a new day with a deep breath after the burned-out struggle of life and work.