In the Topsia of the 1980s, before flyovers sliced through the sky and apartment towers began sprouting like ambitious weeds, there were lanes where the afternoon sun seemed to arrive hesitantly and leave even more reluctantly. The neighbourhood breathed in layers. From one end came the wood and metallic clatter of hand-pulled rickshaws and handcarts,…
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Masala Tea
As the clock struck four in the twilight hours every morning, as the slumbering postcolonial Indian city of Kolkata slowly woke up to face another day, Shibnath Sammadar or SS would get busy opening his 150-year-old tea-shanty. Located diagonally opposite the main gate of Scottish Church College, on the north-eastern wall corner of the Hedua…
Weekend Stories by Trishikh 