{"id":114,"date":"2008-06-07T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/?p=114"},"modified":"2008-11-28T04:28:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T10:28:14","slug":"adda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/archives\/114","title":{"rendered":"Adda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bengali Adda by A y A n, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ayankhasnabis\/2556877955\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3085\/2556877955_e6c5df9ec0_m.jpg\" alt=\"Bengali Adda\" width=\"240\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Adda is a common Bengali word. It means a casual chat or conversation between friends or among a group. There is practically no age limit of people joining in an Adda. Take any Bengali area, roam around on streets on a weekend, you will come across these get-togethers for sure. These adda sessions may\u00a0last for hours. Topics may vary from Poetry to Politics. West Bengal is a cultural hub in India, many times these meeting results in productive ideas. Place of adda may be a roadside cemented base, it may be a tea stall or inside a club! There is no fixed idea. Bengalis may start adda in a train, in a bus or during an office lunch break. Bengalis are so fond of this that so many stories got adda as the main theme. Ghana Da is a famous character. He stays in a mess and loves to take the lead in an adda session. A cup of tea is all that Ghana Da needs. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ayankhasnabis\/2560229720\/\" title=\"Adda...another type by A y A n, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3016\/2560229720_3cd4a94b4b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" alt=\"Adda...another type\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In my office we finalized &#8220;adda&#8221; as the theme of the next issue of office magazine. For this, last week we checked out some popular joints in Kolkata to find out the real adda scenes. I was able to get some frames which captured the mood. I loved the theme completely. Thinking of doing something big on this, lets see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adda is a common Bengali word. It means a casual chat or conversation between friends or among a group. There is practically no age limit of people joining in an Adda. Take any Bengali area, roam around on streets on a weekend, you will come across these get-togethers for sure. These adda sessions may\u00a0last for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}