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Old houses, coloured glasses and green windows, all things #calcutta. #photo

Lovers should stop calling each other ‘Sona’. This is the least we can do considering the time we are in.

@babumoshoy Omg 😂😂😂 best thing I read this morning 👌👌

@runner_anir Wow! 👌👌

Good morning!

@LettersToVoid The last paragraph 🫶

There was a time when Kolkata and I didn’t really get along. Its chaos, its noise, its endless rush. I wanted distance from it all. But somewhere between leaving and longing, something changed. Without even realizing it… Kolkata slowly became home.

@BanerjiSougata @peedeegee Yes and one move this should be as implicit as living!

@peedeegee @itiprapti I consider this statement to be the biggest positive of the new government. Despite being a left supporter, I feel this was a huge statement.

There are rare moments in public life when words stop being mere political rhetoric and start sounding like a collective sigh of relief. This is one of those moments. Recently, a video announcement dropped that should make every citizen, regardless of their political colours, stop, listen, and reflect. Agnimitra Paul, taking charge as the Minister of Urban Development & Municipal Affairs, and Women and Child Development & Social Welfare in the new Government of West Bengal, delivered a message that didn't just outline bureaucratic policy. It outlined a fundamental human right. She looked directly into the camera and stated: "Mothers and Sisters of West Bengal, you can now step out any time of the day, you can wear whatever you want, you can eat whatever you wish to eat at whatever time of the day. No one will tell you what to wear, what to eat and what time of the day you should or shouldn’t be out on the streets. We will not question why a woman stepped out of her home after 8pm. Breathe freely under the open skies, the breath of freedom." Let’s strip away the party flags for a moment. This isn’t about the BJP, and it isn’t about the TMC. Anyone who has tracked the emotional pulse of West Bengal over the last few years knows how heavy the air has been. The conversation around women’s safety has been a deeply painful, anxious reality for millions of families. We have watched, worried, wept, and walked over events that made our streets feel hostile and the night feel like an unwritten curfew for half the population. To have a minister, more importantly, a woman in power, to stand up and explicitly dismantle the toxic culture of victim-blaming in one fell swoop is incredibly refreshing. For decades, institutional responses to women's safety issues have too often been riddled with regression. We are exhausted by the implicit questions: "Why was she out so late?" "What was she wearing?" "Why was she there?" Agnimitra Paul’s statement completely flips the script. It places the onus of safety squarely on the state and hands autonomy back to the women. She also mentioned a new Women’s Helpline to be introduced soon: 181. Through geotagging, your location will be made known to the nearest police station for help to arrive at the earliest.

@Andrew007Uk Humbled 😇

@itiprapti I love all these images - you have a very good eye

No matter how far we go, Kolkata keeps finding its way back to us. In the sound of taxi horns. In old houses with fading paint. In the silence of marble halls. In evenings that feel like childhood. #Kolkata #NGTIndia #streetphotography #heritage #architecture

@Andrew007Uk Thank you 😇

@itiprapti 🔥 👌🏼

@WithManish0 ☺️☺️ please visit again

@itiprapti I still remember my first visit to Kolkata 25 years back, the yellow roads :)

Warning: these photos may cause sudden nostalgia.Because the yellow taxi is still more iconic than your ex.And now AI wants main character energy too:but the taxi still has more personality than half the internet. #Kolkata #yellowcabs #NGTIndia #streetphotography

Breaking: #WestBengal CM #SuvenduAdhikari suspends the following IPS officers for mishandling & offering bribe to the kin in #RGKar rape & murder probe: 1: IPS Vineet Goyal 2: IPS Indira Mukherjee 3: IPS Abhishek Gupta

@SandipGhose @DattaDamayanti Really you think of hygiene and still want street food! I never had jaundice, typhoid having street food in Kolkata! You think the Fuchkas of an AC store taste as good as those near Purna Das Rd,New Market et all neighbourhoods?!!!!!

@DattaDamayanti Kolkata now has many good places available on-line. Hygienic too. I order from those. Check Zomato and Swiggy. Other than the now popular Vardan Market on Camac StreetS

Yes, Sir. Can you think of some?

This route Tollygunge Ballygunge can be a pilot project for modern trams ! @swapan55 @SuvenduWB @sanjeevsanyal

@TheSanjivKapoor Only the coming days will answer. I love my city, stayed here for the last 15 years and more and seeing it cleaner makes me happier

@itiprapti Where do you think they have gone?

Waiting for this apparent overnight magic to hit other Indian cities too 😉 (PS: South Calcutta / Kolkata, and much of the city really, has cleaned up a a lot in recent years, relative to other Indian cities. Is the job done? Far from it. But change in many parts is visible.)

@DattaDamayanti I wish they could bring back that vien. People mentioning the state will lose its ethos to a political party. They lost it long ago. Appreciating the culture is different and imbibing is a completely lost argument!

Me neither. Perhaps, the brides watch a lot of Bollywood movies? Perhaps, their parents wish to please them? Perhaps, yet another opportunity to have fun and spend money? Agekar dine jemon vien boshto barite mithai bananor jonno.

@DattaDamayanti The mehndi and sangeet at Bengali weddings! Could never understand why!!!!

You are probably right. Every time I came to #Calcutta in the last 15 years, I was stunned by the amount of Hindi people were using on the street. Then all those mehendi and sangeet at weddings. Found it extraordinary

These photos aren’t just places. They are memories waiting at every crossing. A reminder that home is not always a person — sometimes, it’s a city. #Kolkata, you are never just lived in. You are felt.❤️ #NGTIndia #streetphotography #DelightingYouAlways

@runner_anir I am feeling the same after going out this week!

Never have I seen Kolkata this peaceful in the last 15 years. Less traffic on roads, less people too. This shows the extent of lawlessness that prevailed. Half the two-wheelers/cabs probably had no valid papers. This now once again feels like the city of my childhood. 🧡