Psychedelic Slippers

If any place can claim to be lazier than Goa, it must be Kolkata. The city is lazy in an almost aristocratic manner. The stronghold of the East India Company, Calcutta still retains the regal air. You must drive across the city to see how much of their mark the English left in India. While other imperial strongholds, like Kanpur for example, have given up their regal legacies to time, Kolkata is almost pompous about them. Massive imperial architecture spawns the breadths of the city, it’s almost like you were walking across the streets of India of the 1900’s. The English came and whitewashed the city, and the city decided never to change itself again. There are boards above shops that probably haven’t been touched since they were first placed there. The fonts of those early days are visible everywhere, from shops, street signs to buses. While the rest of India follows a black with yellow stripes norm for taxis, Kolkata is different. The taxis are chubby ambassadors painted brigh