Metastasis after Sartz Romes

Kolkata is a fast changing city and not everything will remain the same for too long.

As Mamta Banerjee has been screeching her lungs out for long : it seems the rail color is up for a yellow-green enzymatic change of brick walls if not the model of cars as in Singapore.(Brick in the Wall: pinK Floyd)

“The kind of restoration work (NoT Amoral Restoration Age CoMEdY) we are seeing right now can at best be called deplorable,” says conservation architect Nilina Deb Lal. The Mackinnon Mackenzie building at 16 Strand Road, on the Hooghly riverbank, is an imperial sandstone edifice, and marks the western edge of Dalhousie Square.

Paul Mackenzie was my upline in the days I used to be in Herbalife Marketing schedule in the area near Bata More just a stone’s throw away from the café at the street corners.

Herbalife Office in the year 2005 used to be in the vicinity of the ever happening cutlet fish frying restaurants in Dover Lane, just near where Pantaloons stood at that time.

Currently the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, which listed 1,300 heritage buildings last year, is yet to categorize these buildings for the degree of structural change that can be allowed. Until now, only about 10% of these buildings have been surveyed and slotted.

If You read my blogs You will understand why 10 is such an enigmatic number that is in synchronicity with the Sun God.(not Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence)Also Modern literature book outlets are only in Park Street but not many in Dover Lane.The Oxford and Cambridge Book Outlets that is like a deadbeat non happening saga is sure to be demolished soon I hear?As for the lift in Ashutosh Building of College Square , I am unaware if that still works for the liberated souls who otherwise sit in dungeon holes that are colder than the black holes of rustic nobodies.

The municipal corporation has empanelled about 13 conservation architects, but their services are not used in all the projects, admits a high-ranking official of the corporation who is also on its heritage committee.

“If you do not rework the buildings to the modern needs, why would the commercial players invest? And how would you save the heritage buildings then?”However the question is that who will take the liberty to render us free of this post-lunatic British carriage in our very own Kolkata? I would be thrilled to see if Arundhati Roy (not Jhumpa Lahiri now!!) would come out with some make on it.

Preservation is an issue at another landmark, the Great Eastern Hotel. Once a symbol of imperial luxury, the hotel declined in stature and profitability and was taken over by the state government in 1980. It was finally acquired in 2005 by Bharat Hotels Ltd, which bid Rs52 crore for a 90% stake in it.

If You think Rome was not built in a day: You are right, India will be in a few days beginning  today.