It was a pleasure meeting fellow Indian Roadie Sushant Bhartiya of Bangalore who after completing his professional assignment in Jamshedpur made it a point to take a night train to reach Kolkata with the sole objective of meeting me before flying back to Bangalore in the evening on 9th November 2022.
We met up for a delightful buffet lunch at Haka in City Centre 1, Salt Lake. The food was simply too too too good.
We discussed cars, road travel, future plans for Indian Roadie and Indian Roadie eGranth, human behavior, degeneration of Kolkata and West Bengal, flight of capital/ business/ manpower from WB to other cities, the reluctance by people of WB to embrace digital payment modes, a perceivably low happiness quotient which is telltale visible in people's face, non-maintenance of existing infrastructure, the farcical No Refusal taxis, the terribly ill maintained public buses, etc, etc, etc.
The analysis by Sushant about WB was bang on target. It was evident that a professional like him will never get carried away by barely 12 - 15 kms of gaudily painted roads and a row of skyscrapers dotting Kolkata. When he said that the sorrow, professional uncertainties and rot inside is clearly visible once one starts talking to people here in Kolkata, he was so right ☹️
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