How many of you love to buy fresh flowers and keep them in your room? How many of you are fond of the vibrant colors and scent of flowers? How many like presenting a flower bouquet as a gift? Or maybe, want flowers for decoration, for your first date with someone? Well, I simply like to wear them on my hair. The brightness of flowers gives me enough confidence, to walk around in anything that I am wearing, to be myself.

In Kolkata, you can get fresh flowers of variant types in the market situated in Mallick Ghat extending to the start of Howrah bridge. Well, the market is 130 years old and one of the largest in Asia. Even people from the suburbs come to buy flowers from this market.

The view that you can get here is amazing. People sell flowers on either side of the street, in lieu. Rose, Jasmine, Tagore, Genda, Lotus, Daisy, Orchids, and so on. Distinct colorful paradigm all along the street, usually turning into a garden laid with green leaves in the cemented footwalk. In the morning, as early as 6-7 am, the first rays of the sun rightly catch the vibrant colors, the fresh stocks show their magnificence.

Mallick Ghat flower market is the nucleus of trade and commerce concerning flowers. Flowers are sold in bulk. They are even exported to other countries from here. The wholesalers with all their hearts reach out to the crowd and vice versa.  The Flower market of Mallick Ghat affirms the unique diversity of the city and its colourfulness that wipes out all sorrow!