Thanks for the winter!

Winter in Kolkata is always fun. For a city that records a temperature of 100F or above continuously for 9 months a year (March to October), yes.. a temperature of 65F IS winter!! But what makes the winter of Kolkata absolutely fun is the christmas celebrations.

In a show of large contrasts, the sweet smell of rosogolla carried over from Durga Puja is replaced by the aroma of cakes. The city starts to tell stories of its British past and sweet toothed Bengalis must buy a plum cake from Flury’s.

The streets are lighted up and modern western fashion reappears after months of ethnic dominance. The men start dressing up in suits and women are dressed to kill 🙂 And Santa is back with his bag of goodies! My project52 photograph for winter is the following collage:

I didn’t stay till New Year’s or a visit to the zoo would have been inevitable 😀 Stay classy Kolkata, see you later!