Kolkata unlike all the other metros is growing at a very subtle pace, which is very difficult to register through our tamed eyes. You can’t get it in the balance sheets, in the political turnovers, or in the rising cosmopolitan touches. To figure it out you have to live the city with a soul to accept its typicality. Be it in the change of the para culture or in the shoppers’ dilemma there is a ve...ry fine adjustment that’s happening. These small conflicts with the custodians of older societal values give it a shape of a colosseum of a rare breed. The typicality lies in the fact that the moving forward is always challenged by its past, it’s like limping with tons of baggage, still adamant to move forward. It’s very difficult to watch this as an outsider, to register this effect one has to live like a kolkatan.