Coming from Rasbehari Avenue
This piece of writing comes from Rasbehari Avenue. Of the six days in the city, two went towards completing the New Market- Rasbehari Road stretch and back with not much of a botheration. The traffic building every hour, the ride from New Market went past Elliot Park , Calcutta Club (Private Members only), Bhowanipur and Kalighat. Once you get down at Rasbehari Road there is People's Book Centre in whose vicinity is a feat of three typewriters at work at any given time. Before checking out from Metro, the guest house, efforts were made to seek extension in the area by looking for alternate accommodation. This brought me face to face with the following guest houses/hotels
-Maharashtra niwas
-Venkateshwar hotel
- Mysore Guest House
- transit house and second house
Some among them were beyond the budget and some were booked to enable those residing inside to brood over. Once i took an accommodation in Esplanade with a surety that four to five days stay could be availed the comfort to do stories became possible. As i begin to write about Puri-Kolkata ride, there are still some nuggets about Puri that can't be brushed aside. Jay Maa Kali Mistaana Bhandar was one i could not visit this time as it was closed. If memory serves me correct this is the same mistaana bhandar which one of its staff members took me to in 2009 with a declaration that it was dahi ka karkhana. For all its charm Puri has among pedalling rickshaws some who on occasions tend to overcharge. Not a case for them to be made victims by authorities; only a simple realisation that they should charge on a reasonable scale. In the temple road about 200 metres from temple a new food outlet has opened serving patties and pastries. Veg or paneer patty is of desirable quality with a desirable pricing. Then there is one small Hanuman temple on the right side of beach road. If possible, one can visit the same.
The Jagannath Temple Information Centre on the left side of temple comes handy if one is making enquiries about trains and other public transport.
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