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CalWalks featured in Business World
Calcutta Walks featured in the magazine Business World, in their article Best Foot Forward on walking tours in India. [Issue dated 9-15 June 2009] The article highlights the heritage and culture of the megalopolis cities of Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta, talking about different walking routes covered by the respective city organizers. Here’s a
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Calcutta CleanUp Campaign Day 2 !!!
“These protected buildings are at the mercy of callous citizens and an apathetic administration,” said Iftekhar Ahsan of Calcutta Walks, which takes tourists around the heritage zones, flanked by students from St Joseph’s College and some friends. “I saw the invite on Facebook. It’s about time something like this happened here,” said Kunal Lunawat, 21, down for his summer break from Yale.
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Calcutta CleanUp Campaign Day 1
“We had feared resistance but were overwhelmed by the reaction of the residents. They supplied us ladders and knives whenever required. One resident said ‘Thank you bhai’,” said Iftekhar Ahsan of Calcutta Walks, who has planned to clean up the heritage areas next.
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Calcutta Walks introduces homestays in Kolkata !!!
Calcutta Walks introduces homestays in Kolkata !!!
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Amazing new site Localyte.com
Hi Guys! Anybody interested in learning more about destination experts then here’s a wonderful site I stumbled upon. www.localyte.com … in fact you can check out my profile at …. http://www.localyte.com/profile/14200?lrefKey=z7F123FN
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Free Walks for Calcuttans in October!
Hi guys! We’ve decided to give back something to a city that has given us so much. In keeping with the festive spirit of the Pujas we’re giving free walks to all permanent Calcutta residents. (Under certain flexible terms and conditions.) So Calcuttans need not venture out of the city to have a unique tourism
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Ladakh – The Way We Did It !!!
It was mid July, a terribly off season for tourism in Kolkata, it was either hot and humid or pouring down like a dripping faucet. Terribly bugged by it all, Pritish and me at Calcutta Walks, decided to take off to cooler climes. There was this one thing I’d always wanted to do as a bachelor
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What a walk, this cultures walk!!!
The Confluence of Cultures is turning out to be quite a walk. Fascinating to the core. Imagine encountering the cultures of the Anglo-Indians, the Parsis, the Jews, the Chinese, the Armenians, the Marwaris, the Biharis, the Muslims, and the Jains…..plus some sub-sects. Its turning out to be quite an overwhelming experience. Recently, a famous travel
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Rudyard Kipling’s Calcutta
Thus the midday halt of Charnock–more’s the pity! Grew a City. As the fungus sprouts chaotic from its bed, So it spread– Chance-directed, chance-erected, laid and built On the silt– Palace, byre, hovel–poverty and pride– Side by side; And, above the packed and pestilential town, Death looked down.
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