‘The Street That Never Sleeps’
was originally known to the masses as The Burial Ground Road during the British
era. The so called ‘Food Street’ of Kolkata was later renamed The Park Street
as it runs through the once existent deer park of Sir Elijah Impey(Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court at Calcutta reigning from 1773-1789). The Kolkata Municipal Corporation
later rechristened it as the Mother Teresa Sarani in the year 2004 as an honorary
tribute to Mother Teresa.
Since genesis occurred at the Burial Ground Road, it has been
constantly evolving from The Asiatic Society to The Park Hotel to the latest
facebook status update on The Park street page!!! Whether it’s the indomitable
spirit of the music maniacs at the Someplace Else or the pioneers in production
at The Saint Xavier’s University, Park Street never tended to lose its
panoramic charm. It’s a kaleidoscope of life rotating among different forms
ranging from mindboggling music to good food, from colourful fiestas to good
wine, from season’s best baked bread to the Christmas carols. Park Street takes
you through a roller coaster stroll of what not you can even wonder!! This street
is a well defined conjunction of the west and the east, of music and dance, of
Satyajit Ray and Aparna Sen, of Trincas and Barista and much more than can be
fantasised in any other street under the sky. You call it the Entertainment hub
or you call it the Carnival corner, you name it the Scholar’s room or the
Commercial complex, words fall short, phrases shy away and adjectives fail when
deciding the apt definition of this lively street in The City of Joy. Lending
smiles to joys, hues to colours, rhythm to music, lives to life, wings to
butterflies, Park Street is the candescence donor to the incandescent.
Drastic is the word that describes the change of the street
right from the very 1940s to the present day scenario. Park Street is the place
where the ultimate night life of Kolkata is placed. Whether it’s the decade of
the 1970s or the 1980s or times even before that scrolling down to the 1940s,
Park Street has always been the most dynamic host to the most
prolific,musical,extravaganza night life of our lovely city. Till date it has
successfully managed to be the best dining district of Kolkata with varied
restaurants and pubs such as the evergreen Trincas or the city’s grilling plate
Bar-B-Q!!! Want to have a slurp of the delicacies at the fast food outlets??Then
there’s the McDonalds or the Barista!! And if along with being a foodie, you
are the novel hunter, then there’s the Oxford Book Store treat for you!!!!Isn’t
it very much like Aladdin’s genie??You name it and Park Street presents it!!!
Park Street is where souls intertwine, where dreams dare to
dream, where illusions fantasise, where fog lends the warmth, where the rain
quenches its thirst, where the eyes speak!! Park Street is where the heart
lies!!
