{"id":175,"date":"2008-12-18T08:14:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/?p=175"},"modified":"2008-12-19T04:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T10:47:00","slug":"kolkata-rediscovering-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/archives\/175","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata&#8230;. rediscovering every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ayankhasnabis\/3120320308\/\" title=\"... by A y A n, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3252\/3120320308_18e0c3eb3a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" alt=\"...\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My fellow shutterbugs came to Kolkata for a photo tour. After a long gap, I was on the street. Kolkata was definitely a different experience for them. I was chalking out a quick plan for them to cover the must sees for the photo-mads in just two and a half day. At that time I felt I have explored nothing and nowadays are running out of ideas. Went back to the old frequented places and some typical markets of Kolkata. Poverty, people living on the streets; they have not seen much. They have not seen so many vehicles. They have not seen cops having problem in photographing street life. They have met a bengali gentleman for the first time who confidently told them that photographing second Hooghly bridge from Babughat is prohibited! Bengalis in Kolkata know everything, you see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ayankhasnabis\/3112048593\/\" title=\"As Beauty Sets In by A y A n, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3129\/3112048593_4d1425c8bf.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" alt=\"As Beauty Sets In\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time they got a glimpse of beautiful Victoria memorial and Princep ghat. They walked down the sub lanes near Park Street. Had an authentic bengali lunch in Salt Lake restaurant. Took a random bus and reached Howrah in half an hour from distant part of the city. They had so many experiences, and I got so many different views about the city as we were casually chatting in the evening. I have to study Kolkata much more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fellow shutterbugs came to Kolkata for a photo tour. After a long gap, I was on the street. Kolkata was definitely a different experience for them. I was chalking out a quick plan for them to cover the must sees for the photo-mads in just two and a half day. At that time I [&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\/175"}],"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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayan.co.in\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}