India travel notes (20) Calcutta — the old dirty topic

We were quite nervous, at the time of day, scheduled flight 2500 km came to the Bay of Bengal at the edge of the city, there are three reasons: first, this is India jurisdiction area's largest city — is the largest city in India; second, here is the hometown of Tagore; third, it is a city of humic * people, Western movie description when the city often India as background.

8: 30, because there is no suitable power outlet, instant noodles, cooked, not everyone had eaten a few enchante chocolate biscuits as breakfast.

Considering that today go to outside activities all day, immediately go downstairs to check, because more than 12 noon, and you want to count one day room rate. When you try to please checkout to see the Manager of the store, said we are very satisfied with their service, for his advocacy of his hotel in the future there will be more Chinese to Calcutta travel time to live his cordial hotel, also. Finally, we hope that we go out sightseeing, put our luggage storage at his hotel. The front of the cushion, manager gladly promised to our requirements, but also, fenwenbuqu. Because it's still early, fear of outside shops have not opened the door, before going out, we've come to the Hotel Manager to get a plus city map.

Calcutta University, founded in 1857, is India's most famous universities, it consists of 16 College (70), five University College and Institute 211 subsidiary, consisting of up to hundreds of thousands of registered students, these colleges not concentrated in the city of Calcutta, and is scattered throughout the north-eastern India.

We thought that we can visit a similar Chinese North of Tsinghua what has a big campus, just know that you can only look at nearby colleges. Hotel Manager told us, we live in the city centre is very close to a Calcutta University, and is also very near the former residence of Tagore. So, we decided to go to this famous University look, and then visit the former residence of Tagore.

The hotel's door, Wow, street and last night that almost died of "empty city" is totally different, our hotel is in a main street, the street is full of people, are very old, brown skin, car loudspeaker there, a lot of car exhaust pipe also risked bluish-black tail gas, air in the filled with faint dust and, of course, obvious exhaust smell, the House fell on both sides of the street almost all Western-style, but appearance are dilapidated, reminds us that these are just more than half a century ago by the colonial marks.

Streets of ground, not to mention, is full of junk and dirty water, no wonder years ago, my friends are reminded that, Calcutta is the messy in India cities.

Coached, ten minutes walk, in a one-way side-by-side walk two cars-Street, the old houses on the edge of a large iron door and saw, the iron over the arc on the large door frame "UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA," of course, this is only one College increased.

The campus consists of four buildings surrounding a courtyard, nothing is worth visiting, and campus empty, cannot ask this is what the Academy. Read the day from the hotel, just know in Calcutta newspaper today is an important anniversary of the ground, in memory of a man called freedom fighters of India Netaji, located in the city, school students and teachers are all closed. Netaji is Mahatma Gandhi's contemporaries national hero, and Gandhi's non-violent non-cooperative movement, he advocated the overthrow of the violent revolution, colonial rule, in the United Kingdom India independence * Li had a significant impact on the history and status, special support from people, even the Calcutta airport was also named by Netaji. Just because the later Gandhi's non-violent non-cooperation was including the United Kingdom, Western identity, today we are more aware of Gandhi, but few people understand the Netaji. This is India people called freedom fighters are saying is, "give me my blood, I will give you free (give me blood, I ll give you freedom") "

In a hurry to stroll around campus, return to the street, we took note of the UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA on either side of the street there is a lot of old Paris, mostly English books, discipline involves extensive, and many of them are professional English works, of course, the original English novels, the price is not expensive, it is original in the college students to stay.

Unfortunately, we still have a following stroke, it is not possible to bring things, otherwise it would like to pick Basic, whether read or decorative shelves are good.

While we were attracting the bookstalls, suddenly on the side of the street motorcycle sound, there's the sound of gongs and drums (Oh, just the sound of the drums, they did not use the Gong), an inquiry, we know today as the Netaji of 107 anniversary birthday, plus city has large city tour * row, and motorcycle team tour * line is one of the major part of it.

We are close to those emotions, motorcycle team telling tour * walkers who think we are Japan, loudly let us join tour * line (it is said that in its Netaji Revolutionary struggle has been Japan's support), we made a fan, of course, the we in addition to the fun and shout "freedom" of the two will not participate in the tour * line. Presently, the street began to have a Yu * line team, a team of automotive team, pedestrians, motorcycle team, and even color fleet, hilarious, people seemed very excited.

From Calcutta University Street, return to the hotel where we stayed in the main street, is traffic, crowds stream, gives people the feeling is busy, but rather chaotic.

Here's the bus don't have doors nor obvious stop sign, drive slowly, people can at any time, and seemed accustomed not waiting for the bus stop. Most of the bus or window of the window is the used horizontal Batten or iron bar stopped up, perhaps because this hot weather, in-car air conditioning is not available, Windows but burdening. But already dilapidated bus, plus Windows on railings, looks more like a domestic transporting animals covered wagons. The bus andTram no hurry not slow in the streets, with a car, motorcycle, rickshaw, pedestrian, beggars, hawker, head of the delivery goods, mixed cropping, car loudspeaker sound, trams clangs, hawkers, peddlers of recorder India music and sound, and men tell me loud for a Department. We suddenly feel, this seems to be the impression of India.