৵৵৵ History of Kolkata City, Episode - 66, Section - 155/155
Subject:- History of the City of Calcutta, Episode - 66, Serial - 1 Mr. Kalicharan Mukhopadhyay's account of some of the strangest and rarest incidents of the city of Calcutta, collected from his memoirs, is published here. In the 1970s mobiles, computers, thousands of TV channels (there were no other TV channels except DD-1, DD-2 broadcast from Dardarshan of TV Delhi), metrorail, subways at road crossings, fly overs, escalators or network era use of cinema halls. We could only see it in foreign movies on the screen, but in reality we could not even dream of it. How old will I be then, it will be 14 or 15 years old. There were a handful of one or two long-distance trains from Howrah station courtesy of Indian Railways to major cities Delhi, Bombay (not Mumbai), Madras (not Chennai), Walther, Guwahati, Bangalore (not Bengaluru) etc. Later, the office work of the company required 25 out of 30 days of the month to travel to various cities in India. ...